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The Alberta Utilities Commission's (AUC) government-directed inquiry regarding the key issues of concern with renewable power projects in Alberta (the Inquiry) is underway. The focus of...

In 2004, Albertas Transmission Regulation established the framework for the planning and development of Albertas electricity transmission infrastructure. Its intent was to attract new generation, increase competition, and serve expected increases in load. The regulation has remained largely unchanged since 2004. Meanwhile, the electricity system has experienced significant changes—in part due to the dramatic increase in the amount of intermittent renewable power generation facilities connectin...

In 2016, the Province of Alberta passed the Renewable Electricity Act, cementing its commitment to increasing the amount of green energy produced in Alberta, with a goal of 30 percent of Albertas electricity coming from renewable sources by 2030. Since that time, the number and size of renewables projects in Alberta, particularly utility-scale wind and solar projects, have grown rapidly. In 2022, Alberta accounted for over three-quarters of all new wind and solar capacity growth in Canada, and t...

  On the 19th September, 2017, in a press conference held at Kumasi in the Ashanti region the Founder and President of Concerned Voters Movement (CVM) Mr. Razak Kojo Opoku who is now the PRO of NLA, in a 10 page press release sought to point out the positives the Nana Addo’s government will benefit in terms of job creation from the legalisation of banker to banker operations which was a key campaign message in the 2016 elections ie jobs for the youth. He posited emphatically at paragraph 17 ...