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Royal Bank’s Shaz Merwat, lead author of RBC’s Climate Institute report “Power Struggle: How AI is Challenging Canada’s Electricity Grid,” discusses with Francis Bradley the rise of AI and its impact on Canada’s electricity sector. They cover AI’s increasing power demand, regional differences, the economic impact of data centres, strategic policies for leveraging AI, carbon capture’s role, and energy security. They conclude with Shaz’s very timely book recommendation for the Flux Capacitor Book Club.

Links:

RBC Thought Leadership

Power Struggle: How AI is challenging Canada’s electricity grid

Climate Action 2025 Report

Shaz Merwat on LinkedIn

Book recommendation:

• No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers by Robert Lighthizer

The Canadian Hydrogen Association’s President and CEO, Ivette Vera-Perez, in conversation with Francis Bradley about the hydrogen industry in Canada today, what the value chain looks like, the rainbow of different types of hydrogen, and what we are using hydrogen for, including mobility. They also talk about the future of hydrogen and the need for investment tax credits, regulatory alignment, and infrastructure development to support hydrogen’s role in decarbonization and economic growth. They close the conversation with a recommendation for a book to add to the Flux Capacitor Book Club.

Canadian Hydrogen Association

Ivette Vera-Perez at the Canadian Hydrogen Association

Ivette Vera-Perez on LinkedIn

Book recommendation:

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, by Kerry Patterson, Stephen R. Covey, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler

Chief Meteorologist with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Sunny Wescott, in conversation with Francis Bradley about extreme weather, the impacts on infrastructure, the cyclical worsening of events, and the challenge of stabilizing the climate. They also discuss what customers should be thinking about in emergencies and opportunities for creative solutions to greater resilience. They close the conversation with a recommendation for a book to add to the Flux Capacitor Book Club.

Links:

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Sunny Wescott on LinkedIn

Book recommendations:

· The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop, by Tristan Gooley