Sundance#3 (368MW) went offline at 22:49 last night. Sask and Montana will be lower today do to outages. The Alberta Utilities Commission has approved TransAlta’s proposed $56-million settlement for deliberately timing outages at power plants to drive up electricity prices. TransAlta will pay a $52-million administrative penalty, which the commission says is the largest […]
Real-time wholesale power prices in the Alberta Electric System Operator set another all-time low in the third quarter, driven by growing supply, low fuel prices and diminished load growth, according to a report released Wednesday by the Market Surveillance Administrator. The overall real-time wholesale power price averaged C$26.09/MWh in the July-August-September time period, with on-peak […]
Sundance#6 came back online at 17:49 yesterday. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has launched a call for public comments regarding a proposed hydroelectric project in northwestern Alberta. Proposed by AHP Development Corp., the Amisk Hydroelectric Project includes the construction and operation of a 330 megawatt hydroelectric facility on Peace River. The site is located […]
Sundance#6 went offline at 00:08 this morning. Alberta’s oil and gas industry is calling for royalty system changes that lower industry costs and increase its competitive advantage, including a new credit for deep oil wells similar to that that for gas wells and a royalty “freeze” for enhanced recovery from mature formations. In its […]
Sheerness#2 went offline at 23:04 Friday and back online Sunday at 06:29.
Battle River#4 came back online at 19:02 yesterday. Solar panels are the beacon of renewable energy, yet they are not getting as much light as they could be. Joshua Pearce from Michigan Technological University and a team from Queen’s University in Canada have found a way to get more sun to shine on the […]
British Columbia’s clean-energy industry and publicly owned BC Hydro have signed a pact that promises a co-operative hunt for opportunities to build new private power projects. Hydro’s construction of the massive Site C hydroelectric dam, however, means investors will have to be patient. In the absence of any concrete commitments, Paul Kariya, executive director of […]
Black Rock Tidal Power (BRTP), has raised C$15 million (US$11.5 million) for investment in its 2.5-MW TRITON floating marine hydrokinetic energy platform. BRTP will initially install 16 of its “STG” generating units in spring 2016 at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy in Canada, giving the project an output capacity of 1.1 MW. The […]
Path 2 (AB-SK) went out of service at 09:12 yesterday and is scheduled to be down until 18:00 Oct 30, 2015. Maximizing the use of renewable energies like wind and solar as part of a mix of energy sources to replace coal is essential to ensure that greenhouse gas emission reductions are not only […]
Sundance#5(406MW) went offline at 21:40 Friday and back online at 18:03 Sunday; Path 83 (MATL) out of service at 16:01 Saturday and back in service at 13:20 Sunday. HE 20 last night was $403.47. It’s understandable if Alberta’s coal-fired electrical plant operators are starting to sweat as Premier Rachel Notley cranks up the heat […]
