The Province of Alberta has taken a leadership role in restructuring its power industry through the introduction of the Electric Utilities Act in 1995. Subsequent consultations between stakeholders led to Bill 27, the Electric Utilities Amendment Act passed in 1998. The old model is one of ...
Alberta is the only province with natural gas as its main source of electricity. Nuclear Nuclear power is a carbon-free energy source that makes up a considerable share of the energy generated in both the U.S. and Canada. 19% of America’s and 15% of Canada’s electricity comes from ...
Coal-fired electricity generation in U.S. amounted to 675 terawatt hours in 2023, nearly 19 percent less in comparison to the previous year. A decade earlier, almost two thousand terawatt hours of electricity was generated from coal combustion in the country. In 2023, coal accounted for nearly...
As a result, the Alberta government has chosen to transition to a capacity market. For consumers, a capacity market aims to ensure there is sufficient investment in new generation capacity to "keep the lights on" and reduce price swings in the wholesale market. The capacity market will also ...
k) Major per capita energy conservation, in part realized by urban siting of nuclear power plants to efficiently use low grade heat rejected by thermal electricity generation for biofuel drying, domestic hot water and comfort heating; l) A major world human population reduction; m) Adoption of ...
Health benefits of phasing out coal-fired power plants in Ontario, Alberta, and Canada The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (RIAS) under the coal regulation estimated substantial health benefits based on scenario analysis. Here we use adjoint... YB Oztaner,M Soltanzadeh,S Zhao,... - 《Atmo...
As a brief addition to a review of Alberta's renewables auctions,Hastings-Simon et al. (2022)made a similar proposal that they called “benchmarked” CfD. The authors suggest using a weighted average of a benchmark and actual generation to balance incentives and risk exposure. The proposal is...
The Hub has 13 founding participants, including Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), BC Hydro, City of Medicine Hat, EPCOR, Essex Power Corporation, Fortis Inc., Manitoba Hydro, NB Power, Ontario Power Generation, Qulliq Energy Corporation, SaskPower, Toronto Hydro and Utilities Kingston. ...
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It’s an ambitious plan to build out nuclear generation, but how will all that power be moved to consumers? I grew up on a multi-generational farm in southwestern Ontario; in the 1980s, a 500-kV transmission line from the Bruce nuclear plant to the U.S. border cut a wide swath throu...