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Powering a green Nova Scotia, together.

What does our clean energy future look like?

Imagine a future where a battery in your home stores clean energy, from wind or solar, and provides it to keep your home powered during an outage. Imagine driving to work in an electric vehicle powered by net-zero energy straight from an EV charger in your garage.

Imagine having the data at your fingertips, in real-time, to help you save energy, reduce your cost, gain more choice and control energy use, all while making a difference for the environment.

That future isn’t far off for the Peckham family! They’re helping to power a greener Nova Scotia by doing their part to live sustainably and reduce their carbon footprint—through the Smart Grid Nova Scotia Program.


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How do we get there?

A smarter grid: Modernizing the power grid is an important part of providing reliable and affordable electricity, while allowing for cleaner electricity and maintaining the stability of the grid. We are investing in more renewable energy sources like wind and solar and continue to meet the growing demand from customers adopting new technologies like in in-home battery storage and electric vehicles.

Smart meters: Smart meters allow communication over a secure network, which means you can see and manage your energy use better. It also means we can send billing alerts and tips for energy usage. Smart meters will also notify us when your power goes out, helping us restore power faster during an outage. 

Cleaner energy: We continue to be a leader in North America in reducing carbon emissions—tripling renewable energy to 30% from just 9% over the past decade.  We are on track to generate approximately 60% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2022. Smart Grid NS is key to helping us do this.

Electric Vehicles: We have installed electric vehicle fast-charging stations, paving the way for electric vehicle adoption and removing barriers to this new and improving technology. This will change our reliance on fossil fuels and allow us to provide charging technology that gives customers more visibility and control of their charging.

Batteries: We are taking advantage of wind and solar, storing clean energy that customers can access when they need it. Piloting batteries in homes allows us to use the stored energy as a back-up power source in the event of an outage.


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