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Alberta Power Snapshot - January 2025

A brief review of Alberta electricity pool prices in January 2025, including the first-time ever zero-dollar prices in any January since at least 2005.

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Alberta-Power: 2024 in Review

A review of the Alberta electricity market in 2024 with a focus on outliers, trends and patterns, and a comparison to the 2005-2024 time frame. Particular focus on the “outlier” (or rather structural trend) of sharply increasing zero-dollar hours.

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A level playing field saves taxpayer money!

A levelized playing field for competing technologies significantly reduces the cost to taxpayers by driving customers toward the most economically efficient solution. In Canada, Thermal Energy Storage solutions are currently disadvantaged vis-a-vis other, costlier technologies - time to re-level the playing field!

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Alberta-Power: Regime Change!

A review of the rapidly and radically changing electricity market regime in Alberta through key Q3 statistics and comparisons to the same quarter over the past two decades. Zero-dollar hours are on a roll!

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Alberta-Power, Part 3: Opportunities

The final part of the Alberta Power series, looking at the business cases for three opportunities arising from intermittently cheap electricity: Batteries, Hydrogen, and Electro-Thermal Energy Storage.

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