Alberta’s Electricity Future
Draft v1.0 – Published March 4, 2024
Navigating the complexities of modernizing Alberta’s electricity grid demands collaborative dialogue and innovative thinking. Leading the Charge: A Vision for Alberta’s Electricity Future harnesses diverse perspectives from the initiative’s inclusive engagement model to envision an electricity system that empowers customer choice, ensures reliability, and accelerates decarbonization affordably.
As Albertans work together to reduce emissions towards our net-zero targets, Alberta’s electricity system is facing a perfect storm of challenges to its reliable, safe, and affordable operation. In order to overcome these complex, deeply interwoven, system-level challenges, it’s clear that our past efforts to tweak the existing system won’t work. To successfully navigate through the storm, the system needs fundamental changes driven by a new approach.
Alberta’s electricity system was designed for a different era: not just the resources powering it, or the poles and wires, but the complex system of integrated players, policies and market signals that determine how much energy to produce, where it needs to go, and how much it will cost. Preparing Alberta’s electricity system to meet the needs of the future will require a highly-coordinated approach that includes the perspectives from the many stakeholders and Rights Holders connected to it, and also draws in non-traditional voices from groups that the current system is under-serving or affecting adversely.
By bringing the system together to find alignment through a unified vision of our electricity future, identify key barriers that stand between today’s reality and that vision, and test solutions to remove those barriers, Alberta’s Electricity Future offers a better, more effective, and more equitable way to collaborate around solving these problems.
From governments to industry to consumers, everyone has a role to play in achieving a net-zero future in Alberta.
Building a coalition of leaders in Alberta’s electricity sector to be the actors for change
Uncovering barriers to progress and identifying where our collective action can bring about policy, regulation, customer engagement, and technology integration solutions needed to realize the vision
Creating a collective vision for the future of Alberta’s electricity system that will guide actions and focus outcomes
Implementing prototype solutions in real-world scenarios to embed collaboration, test solutions, iterate, share learnings, and ultimately scale solutions to resolve roadblocks
View our Stakeholder Outreach Presentation.
We are currently accepting expressions of interest from new participants with interest and/or expertise in fields related to this challenge as outlined above. If you are interested in taking part in our work, please reach out to a member of the Challenge Team:
Maureen Kolla
Lead, Alberta’s Electricity Future
mkolla@energyfutureslab.com
Julie Bunker
Project Coordinator, Alberta’s Electricity Future
jbunker@energyfutureslab.com
The project concept for Alberta’s Electricity Future was introduced at the EFL Year-End Showcase in November 2022.
We are an Alberta-based coalition of diverse innovators and leading organizations working together to accelerate the transition to the energy system the future requires of us.
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