Marine Renewables Canada (MRC) has published a national roadmap that outlines how offshore wind, tidal, wave, and river current energy can help meet Canada’s surging electricity demand, projected to increase two to threefold by 2050, with marine renewable energy seen as a key pillar of the country’s clean energy transition.

Although Canada has already made progress with tidal energy demonstrations in Nova Scotia and British Columbia, Indigenous-led community projects, and the joint federal-provincial offshore wind regulatory framework, with the Marine Renewable Energy Sector Vision 2050 , MRC is calling for deliberate, coordinated action and has identified 14 critical actions needed to establish the conditions for success and move from early deployment to large-scale commercialization.