Alberta’s Electricity Future (AEF) is based on the view that players across the electricity system are responding to new factors that fall outside (and sometimes run contrary to) the parameters of what Alberta’s electricity system was originally designed to do. 

These factors include changes and challenges to the electricity generation mix, market behaviours, system reliability and customer expectations. Taken together, changes in these areas are threatening the affordability of electricity, the future competitiveness of Alberta’s industry in global markets, and the desirability of Alberta as a destination for business in an increasingly net-zero focused world.

Phase 2 of Alberta’s Electricity Future resulted in the creation of a series of 10 challenge statements, which served to articulate initiative leaders’ and contributors’ strongest understanding of the key systemic barriers standing in the way of large-scale transformation of Alberta’s electricity system.

The statements point to areas where actors working to accelerate change in the system might take collective action towards realizing the vision co-created by initiative participants and unlock substantial progress toward a net-zero electricity system in Alberta.