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A First Nation is trying to get back to its ancestral land through an ambitious project: harness the ocean to create energy.

For her timely and tireless work advancing climate change policy solutions, UVic professor and ACET researcher Katya Rhodes received the prestigious 2025 Emerging Sustainability Leader Award at the 11th World Sustainability Forum in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this month.

Members of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nation return home to Yuquot, which they plan to re-occupy full-time after being displaced in the 1960s.

A first-of-its-kind effort to gain a detailed picture of the energy aspirations of small, rural and remote communities across northern BC has sparked new conversations that will help shape the next decade of clean energy development in the province.

For her timely and tireless work advancing climate change policy solutions, UVic professor and ACET researcher Katya Rhodes received the prestigious 2025 Emerging Sustainability Leader Award at the 11th World Sustainability Forum in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this month.

The ̽��ϵ�� will lead a national, multi-partner research initiative that will help get Canada to net zero—one community at a time—with thanks to an $83.6-million investment from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF).

ACET and the Community Energy Association (CEA) have partnered to help communities across the province turn clean energy ideas into action.

Curran Crawford: CleanBC review emphasizes the importance of measuring progress in ways that people can actually see and feel rather than focusing solely on abstract greenhouse gas targets.

A new international partnership between institutes in Canada and Estonia is accelerating community-based clean energy transformation in the European Union, with benefits for island communities abroad and across Canada.

Fossil fuel-dependent communities in Western Canada sit at the centre of Canada’s energy decisions. A just and inclusive clean energy transition will depend on how well governments listen to these communities and how fast they deal with the forces working to slow down energy decarbonization.

Summerfest is an annual community camp-out where members of the Mowachaht Muchalaht First Nation return to the ancestral village site from which the nation was displaced in the 1960s. Ensuring access to affordable, reliable energy is key to making that return possible.