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The Opportunity

Alberta has increasingly become the key province of interest for renewable energy developers in Canada. The availability and quality of resources available in southern Alberta is only one of the reasons for this.

 

Throughout the latter half of 2019 and through 2020 to date, wind and solar energy developers have announced a steady stream of new projects, coming online over the next several years.

 

These are all significant projects all of which are within the SAAEP region - including the 465 MW Travers Solar Project (traverssolar.com), the 117 MW Rattlesnake Ridge Wind project, the 132 MW Claresholm Solar project, and the 39 MW Burdett and Yellow Lake Solar Projects. 

Alberta is currently Canada’s leading market for renewable energy investment and a lot of that is because of the unique opportunities to secure bilateral corporate off-take agreements in the Alberta market as a result of:

 

  1. Alberta’s world class renewable resources, which make wind and solar cost competitive with other fossil fuel generation.
     

  2. Alberta’s Energy Only Market, which provides an opportunity for entrepreneurs to make investments and sell power to customers on both an hourly and a long-term basis.
     

  3. The TIER regulation, which provides opportunities for renewable energy generators to monetize and generate revenues from the environmental benefits they bring to the system. 

 

Source: Renewables Association

EXPLORE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS ACROSS ALBERTA

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Project Maps

Projects Map

AESO Connection Project Map 

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Renewable Energy Capital Projects, by Future Energy Systems, U of A

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Photovoltaic Potential & Solar Resources Map of Canada

SAAEP -Operational & Planned Renewable Energy Projects Map

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Regional Generation

The charts below show how the energy for the regions of Southern Alberta are generated. The data visualization tools were developed by Arcus Power and the website updates every hour to reflect the live energy generation data.
MWh = MegaWatt Hours
MC = Maximum Capability

SouthGrow

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Live Energy Generation Data (updated every hour):

SouthWest

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Live Energy Generation data (updated every hour): 

Project Guides

Project Guides
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Understanding Alberta's Electricty Market

A brief history of how the Alberta electricity market developed.

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Connecting to the Grid

Facilitate a market participant's request for new or altered system access service on Alberta's transmission system.

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Base Cases

Energy infrastructure information. Due to the security level of this information (Critical Energy Infrastructure Information classification), AESO's consent is required to access base case data.

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Long-term Transmission Plan

Planning for our future electricity needs - timing and location of transmission facilities required to meet electricity needs.

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Forecasting

Long-term outlook - forecast for electricity demand and generation in the province looking out 20 years. It's used to inform our long-term transmission plans and regulatory filings.

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