ARE YOU READY FOR A LOWCARBON WORLD?

In collaboration with another engineering firm, we helped the mining company meet the grant application's requirement for detailed, quantifiable and verifiable numbers on expected energy savings including electricity, diesel fuel and natural gas. In some provinces with grids largely powered by fossil fuels, such as Alberta and Saskatchewan, miners may have to set up their own purchase power agreements with green energy sources, to get full climate-related benefits from using electrical power. Increasingly, mines that are located off-grid will be able to build a better business case for generating their own power using wind or solar. For existing mines, steps for de-risking energy and carbon price escalation include having a carbon reduction roadmap and using an Energy Management Information System.