The Smart Prosperity Research Network supports policy-relevant research that advances the transition to clean energy and the use of clean electricity to power industry, transportation, and buildings.
The research highlighted on this page stems from academic research projects selected by an independent Research Network Steering Committee and funded by the Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network (EEPRN) and the Greening Growth Partnership.
Click on the titles below to access working papers, blogs, and analyses from Smart Prosperity Research Network-funded projects completed since 2018. Scroll down to find recent research on other topics.
Clean energy
- Policy Precedents for Inclusive Energy Retrofits
- What we can talk about when we don’t talk about profit
- Understanding renewable energy clusters and their role in a just transition
- Negative policy feedbacks may hold New Brunswick back from decarbonizing its electricity sector
- Heterogeneous investors, scale economies and the commercialisation of innovative renewable energy technologies
- Agile Regulation for Clean Energy Innovation
- Accelerating a 1.5°C Energy Transition: Diffusion of Low-Carbon Innovations to Energy Users
- Post-COVID-19 Indigenous Economic Recovery - Reconciliation in the Energy Transition
Electric vehicles and electromobility
- Governing through uncertainty - EVs in Calgary, Montréal, and Toronto
- Rooted in place - EV leadership in California, Norway, and Québec
- The Stories that Bind Us: Advancing Electromobility in Canada
- Four reasons why cheap gas prices will not stall the electric vehicle market
- Leading International Electric Vehicle Policies: Success Stories of Norway and China
Changing energy demands
- What we can talk about when we don’t talk about profit
- How the COVID-19 pandemic affected mobility in Toronto and Vancouver
- Metal Extraction in a Low-Carbon Economy: Projected Trends in Metal Demand and Policy Options for Demand Reduction
- Lessons for Canada’s next residential energy efficiency retrofit program
- It’s Well Past Time to Modernize Alberta’s Clean Up Rules for Oil and Gas
- Three Lessons for Quebec's Natural Gas Market
Have you recently completed new research on this topic?
Smart Prosperity welcomes submissions to our Clean Economy Working Paper Series
