Quebec Releases Energy Policy's 2017-2020 Action Plan

On June 26, 2017, Québec's Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Mr. Pierre Arcand, unveiled the 2017-2020 Action Plan (the "Plan"), a first step towards implementing the 2030 Energy Policy (the "Policy"). The Policy, made public in April 2016 by the Québec Government, sets forth ambitious targets aimed at reducing both Quebec's consumption of fossil fuels and its dependency on foreign energy, thereby achieving "energetic transition".

A year later, the Action Plan sets out 42 measures (in French only), backed by $1.5 billion public investments, providing for concrete actions which are divided in four axes: (1) integrating the energetic transition's governance; (2) fostering energetic transition towards a low-carbon-footprint economy; (3) offering consumers a diversified and renewed energy supply; and (4) defining a new approach with respect to fossil fuels. The implementation can be followed directly on the Action Plan website (in French only). Two of the measures