Some Alberta landowners are hoping to use the Supreme Court to fight a power transmission line that they say could be left idle as the province cuts its greenhouse gas emissions. The landowners are completing an application to appeal a provincial regulatory decision that gave power transmission company AltaLink approval to use their property for […]
Rachel Notley, on the first leg of a business trip to Montreal, New York City and Toronto, told executives and politicians that a national cap-and-trade system “may not be our best road forward.” Alberta — whose economy is heavily dependent on the greenhouse gas-intensive oilsands — must get its act together to reduce emissions or […]
A government-funded report that’s never been publicly released says jacking up Alberta’s carbon tax is the best way to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. But the Brattle Group, an international economic consultancy, also warns that greening Alberta’s power grid will increase electricity costs. The report says the government should require […]
There may be no more power plants burning coal in Ontario, but it was only a decade ago that the province generated enough electricity from coal to supply three million households. Now coal-dependent, Alberta is giving it a shot. It is something that would have been unthinkable less than a year ago in a province […]
VNM Rural Electrification Association (REA) members have voted to sell their electricity system assets to FortisAlberta. At a special general meeting in June, 97 per cent of members voted in favor to sell these assets. VNM REA is located in the Barrhead and Westlock County area, northwest of Edmonton. The sale, valued at $16.0 million, […]
Alberta’s electricity regulator says it can’t force TransAlta to pay consumers back for inflated electricity prices, despite finding the company guilty of price fixing earlier this year. But, in a follow up decision issued this week, the AUC also found it doesn’t have the authority to order restitution. Regulators are still set to decide later […]
Sundance#6 came back online at 12:36, off at 23:06 and back online at 02:40 this morning. AltaGas Ltd. said Monday it will buy three gas-fired electric power plants in California for US$642 million from a fund run by Oaktree Capital Group. Calgary-based AltaGas said it agreed to buy GWF Energy Holdings LLC, which owns […]
Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator released the FIT/microFIT price schedule which will be applicable to FIT 4.0 applications and to any FIT or microFIT contracts awarded after Jan. 1, 2016. Reflecting global trends, the energy prices for rooftop and non-rooftop Solar projects in all project tranche sizes decreased between 23.4% and 29.5%. According to the […]
Investment in clean energy in Canada climbed 88 per cent in 2014 to nearly $11 billion, according to a report from Clean Energy Canada. Almost half that investment – about $4.5 billion – was in Ontario which adopted a green energy plan in 2009 and has been investing in solar and wind. But other provinces […]
Sundance#6 (389MW) went offline at 21:39 yesterday. At a glance, the Canadian Coal Conference kicking off in Vancouver today looks like any other corporate confab: A golf tournament, a hotel ballroom and a reception at an uptown restaurant are all on the agenda. However, amid the pleasant trappings Canada’s coal industry will spend the […]
