Tamara Krawchenko Publishes two Research-based Opinions

July 20, 2026

Dr. Tamara Krawchenko publishes two pieces from her ongoing research programs on regional energy transitions, electricity governance, and just transition pathways.

Published in Policy Options, the first piece, published with Martin Boucher, Julie MacArthur, Curran Crawford and Maya Willard-Stepan, focuses on the role of community-level flexibility in Canada’s emerging electricity strategy. It argues that achieving a reliable and net-zero grid will depend not only on large-scale infrastructure investments, but also on enabling local and regional actors—including Indigenous communities—to participate in demand management, distributed generation, and system planning. The piece situates this within broader questions of governance, coordination, and regional energy planning.

The second piece, published in the Vancouver Sun with Curran Crawford and Cecilia Jaques, addresses the growing reliance on natural gas as a “stopgap” in B.C.’s electricity system. It cautions against the risk of this becoming entrenched as a longer-term pathway, and highlights the importance of aligning short-term reliability decisions with longer-term decarbonization and electrification goals.