TransAlta wind farm near Pincher Creek, Alta., Wednesday, March 9, 2016.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh By Lauren Krugel Electricity generator TransAlta Corp. has announced plans to power a new data centre west of Edmonton in partnership with the Canada Pension Plan...
Alberta’s new budget will carry an eye-popping $9.4-billion deficit as the province, after decades of trying to get off a roller-coaster of oil revenues, seeks to manage the ride and weather the whiplash. The deficit is the largest since the COVID-19 era, a time of...
REGINA – There’s been a number of big announcements recently from Minister of Crown Investments Corp. and Minister Responsible for SaskPower Jeremy Harrison in recent weeks – on starting the path to choosing a large nuclear reactor design, and more...
SASKATOON – Between growth in mining, the population, the economy in general, data centres, artificial intelligence and yes, even increasing adoption of electric vehicles, there is a broad expectation that power grids across North America will need to double in...
Editor’s note: On Feb. 23, Minister of Crown Investments Corp and Minister Responsible for SaskPower Jeremy Harrison released a plan for dramatically stepping up power transmission infrastructure, not only within the province, but to our neighbours....
In late January, Crown Investments Corp. Minister Jeremy Harrison announced that SaskPower would begin the process of technology selection for large, 1,000 megawatt-scale reactors. That’s a fancy way of saying Saskatchewan is in the market to pick a big reactor design...
