> Electricity sector a ‘lose-lose’

Canada’s electricity sector is wasting billions of dollars subsidizing consumers, a structure that inadvertently encourages carbon emissions and creates vast inefficiencies, industry leaders heard Tuesday.

“The current Canadian electricity sector is a lose-lose situation,” economist Pierre-Olivier Pineau told the annual electricity conference of the Canadian Energy Research Institute in Calgary Tuesday.

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