Province commits to boosting on-island wind and solar and achieving net-zero emissions by 2040
Ottawa, October 30, 2025—The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) celebrates Prince Edward Island’s new 10-year energy strategy announced this week. The strategy reaffirms the province’s commitment to expanding clean energy and achieving net-zero emissions by 2040. It also calls for strengthened consumer protections, upgrades to infrastructure and regional collaboration, while highlighting energy equity and affordability.
The strategy recognizes that the rise in demand for electricity on PEI outstrips generation capacity—including imports from neighbouring provinces—and projects a 27% deficit by 2033. For this reason, the strategy states, it’s important to produce more clean energy in PEI, both to make the power supply more secure and to help meet environmental targets.
“PEI’s 10-year energy strategy unveiled this week makes it clear that electricity demand in the province will increase significantly in the next decade, mirroring the trend across Canada,” said Jean Habel, CanREA’s Senior Director of Policy for Quebec and Atlantic Canada. “Our members are ready to step up and build new wind, solar and energy storage projects to supply the Island’s homes and businesses with the clean, low-cost, reliable and flexible electricity they need to meet the government’s ambitious net-zero climate goals by 2040.”
The new strategy was informed by a public consultation process and the results of energy system modelling, as well as energy sector reports and studies and a comprehensive expert review. In addition to the specific commitment to boosting PEI’s renewable energy generation capacity, the document outlines four other strategic pillars that will guide the province’s energy vision through to 2035. The actions that flow from these pillars will seek to create a stable regulatory framework and drive energy efficiency, decarbonization and innovation, helping the government achieve its key objectives of reliability, affordability and equity, sustainability and economic development.
CanREA is especially pleased that the strategy reflects several of the recommendations the Association made during the consultation process and, as the strategy is rolled out, hopes to see increased support for residential and community solar programs, more efficient use of existing infrastructure, and clear timelines and criteria for procurements of wind, solar and storage, in order to provide best value to ratepayers by maximizing competition.
“The PEI Energy Strategy includes actions for integrating more on-island clean energy generation and storage, beneficial electrification strategies—including for the transportation sector—and transmission improvements,” said Eddie Oldfield, CanREA’s Manager of Policy for Atlantic Canada. “This will ensure a more supportive environment for the integration of wind, solar and storage solutions on Prince Edward Island, and go a long way toward helping the province meet its climate and energy goals.”
CanREA will continue to closely follow Prince Edward Island’s new energy strategy and looks forward to seeing the next steps, including the detailed implementation plan.
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“PEI’s 10-year energy strategy unveiled this week makes it clear that electricity demand in the province will increase significantly in the next decade, mirroring the trend across Canada. Our members are ready to step up and build new wind, solar and energy storage projects to supply the Island’s homes and businesses with the clean, low-cost, reliable and flexible electricity they need to meet the government’s ambitious net-zero climate goals by 2040.”
— Jean Habel, Senior Director of Policy for Quebec and Atlantic Canada, Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA)
“The PEI Energy Strategy includes actions for integrating more on-island clean energy generation and storage, beneficial electrification strategies—including for the transportation sector—and transmission improvements. This will ensure a more supportive environment for the integration of wind, solar and storage solutions on Prince Edward Island, and go a long way toward helping the province meet its climate and energy goals.”
— Eddie Oldfield, Manager of Policy for Atlantic Region, Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA)
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