Wow, it’s windy today in Edmonton (~8 bft). There are four EPCOR outages right now and I’m sure their electricians are on the job – a reminder of what distribution fees on our electricity bills pay for! #YEGwx

Staying yellow but being “infused with shades of green" makes me think of … moldy butter 🦠🧈 www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

🌦️Looking forward to joining @solaralberta.ca's Solar Show next week! Though, unfortunately, it's not all clear skies in Alberta.

Air quality was kinda poor this morning. Did anyone else smell smoke? I think it was due to a temperature inversion we had overnight. All the more reason to support public transit and mode shift!!! #YEGwx Pictured: windy.com ECMWF airgram forecasted a temperature inversion this morning.

This gives Dune 🪱

The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.

Per bsky.app/profile/maxf... they also have to cost $33K or less, which is a market segment that NA automakers are currently serving very poorly. So if they sell well, that's a clear signal: provide product or be replaced.

I learned about a great EV range and charging time comparison tool this week. The top three performers are from Chinese brands and the #2 sells for just ~24k CAD in China. The first option from an American big three automaker comes in at #128. abetterrouteplanner.com/compare/cars/

EVs running on Alberta and Saskatchewan’s grids are still more GHG and energy efficient than combustion cars.

My holiday wish is that the government makes real progress on fixing the issues Joe describes here

Oof – it's been looking bad for flu in Alberta this year. Test positivity rates are high! Best to listen to Dr. Vipond's advice below.

💨 The wind came back in Alberta on Saturday morning and has been providing 25-35% of our grid electricity since, putting electricity prices below 2¢/kWh since. There's another cold snap coming, but for now, it's not looking to be as severe as last week's.

😌 It's Friday now and it seems like we're through the coldest part of this snap. The folks at Alberta's electricity system operator have done a great job keeping the lights on 📊 Looking at the data on ets.aeso.ca and on @electricitymaps.com, 3 things stand out to me:

Alberta is facing days of extreme cold. 🥶❄️ Can the grid keep up? Electricity expert @jasonrwang.bsky.social breaks it down. 🎥 Watch a clip ➡️ buff.ly/rdCDPrI 🎧 Listen to the whole interview ➡️ ️https://buff.ly/DlOKr2a

🥶 Brrr, the polar vortex is coming for Alberta and that's got me worried for avalanche stability (deep persistents, anyone? ⛷) ⚡As for the electricity grid? 🎙️I was on CBC Edmonton AM this morning to talk about it! 📻 You can hear the whole clip here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The Clean Electricity Regulations would have exempted and allowed a data centre to build on-site, unabated gas turbines – unless those turbines exported more power to the grid than was used on-site.

🦉 Interesting today that Alberta Parl. Sec. de Jonge's mandate letter has a change in tone from Minister Neudorf's letter. Instead of "how nuclear energy can" fit into Alberta's energy mix," there's "if and how nuclear energy may". 🦅

🚗🔋 TIL that Nepal and Ethiopia are the two countries following Norway the closest in EV adoption. “Ethiopia got sick of importing gasoline and gas-burning cars. In 2024, it became the world’s first country to ban the import of combustion engine vehicles.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/27/o...

I took a quick, lazy look at total Canadian jobs vs. mining, quarrying, and oil and gas jobs between 1997 and 2024 based on StatCan data. To be honest, I'm a little surprised – there's been tremendous net growth in other sectors. www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/t...

The only time the world "renewable" showed up in Alberta's Throne Speech today was in the phrase "non-renewable resources." ☀️ We have the best wind and solar potential in Canada – why isn't the government planning to use this advantage to power economic prosperity?

ETS bus 4931 looks and sounds like it’s been retrofitted. It’s quiet and there almost sounds to be a hybrid electric motor giving it a boost. I’d love to know if that’s true! cptdb.ca/wiki/index.p...

Alberta's path to prosperity lies in emissions reduction, innovation, and cross-border collaboration, not the reverse. #ABpoli

My friendly amendment to the fusion joke: Fusion hasn't been 10 years away for the last 100 years – it's always been 8.3 minutes from us! ☀️😎

Hey @youralberta.bsky.social, this is what a credible plan looks like. It has new actions and ideas, unlike the 2023 ERED document that just rehashes past work.

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

Seems like a big deal. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #cdnpoli #ableg. NB: $10.7 billion is undoubtedly an underestimate. Total oil sands mine closure estimates have swung wildly in the past 4 yrs (graph), which tells you something about their reliability.

"As rights & title holders, we must inform Premier Smith once again that there is no support from Coastal First Nations for a pipeline & oil tankers project in our coastal waters" Marilyn Slett, president, Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli #abpoli #c5

☀️ Max hits the mark with this: rooftop (and balcony) solar lets everyone be involved in the energy transition. 💸 But he oversimplified on costs. Rooftop solar is in fact more economic than LCOEs suggest because they take advantage of existing, under-utilized distribution wires.

🚩 Alberta’s pipeline proposal is a bad bet for taxpayer dollars and Canada’s climate “It speaks volumes that after months of pressure from [Alberta] ... & offers of concierge service from Ottawa, industry has still refused." – Janetta McKenzie, O&G dir. @pembina.org #ABpoli #ABenergy #ABinvestment

Air quality in Jasper and Squamish are horrendous right now. And in Vancouver, Yellowknife, Alberta, and more. Take care, folks. And a loved one or neighbour too, if you can.

“I really wish that the panel would not just ask, ‘How do we build nuclear energy?’ Instead, ‘How do we build a grid that’s ready for the future?’,” says our electricity expert @jasonrwang.bsky.social in conversation with Michael Higgins on Alberta Primetime.👇 2/2 #abpoli buff.ly/9vacUUQ

UPDATE: it's the lowest since June 2021 – a whole four years ago. AESO removed links to project queues from before January 2023 so I needed to dig into my archives to find the older data.

As of last Friday, Alberta's renewable energy development queue hit the lowest it has been since at least February 2023. For more on the downward trend, the spikes, and ways to grow development interest again, see: www.pembina.org/pub/down-not...

Apropos nothing, some napkin math: With an estimated 861 Gt of carbon stored in trees and soil, it would take 3.27 Earths' worth of trees and soil to soak up anthropogenic emissions.

⚽️ What an exciting FIFA Club World Cup final! At least in the first half. Sad that Bayern Munich didn’t make it, but Chelsea deserve this win.

SK’s electricity emissions intensity is already higher than China’s. (NIR, Ember). And China is building renewables faster than growth in demand.

We’re mostly good now! Still above the WHO recommended 24 hr avg figure of 15 μg/m3 though. #YEGwx

The smoke and air quality warning in Alberta is getting to a lot of us. I hope you all take a moment to check in with a friend, family member, a neighbour. We need community to mitigate and adapt together. It does seem like cleaner air is coming to Edmonton from Ft. McMurray though.

🫎 Young moose on the loose in Edmonton’s McKernan/Queen Alex area! Provincial Fish&Wildlife are aware but don’t immediately have the resources to help.

Reminder to anyone looking at today's Alberta oil sands emission intensity report: emissions intensity has barely budged since 2014.

Looks like the prairies and the NWT are going to be the hottest places in Canada this week with highs above 30ºC. I hope the rain on Thursday doesn't come with too much thunder – seems bad for fire risk. (I use ICON and MBLUE forecasts on windy.com) #YEGwx

There are so many solutions in front of us to deploy. We need to both BUILD and innovate. No need to pick just one.

Great reporting from Colin Gallant: edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/04...

Trying to wrap my head around this all: if true, wouldn't option 1 just end up being another subsidy for oil sands CCS investment?

‼️ Alberta's draft Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan will threaten two caribou herds by vastly expanding logging and oil and gas development. 🦌 Statement below from @cpawsnab.bsky.social @albertawilderness.bsky.social @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @pembina.org and Kirby Smith cpawsnab.org/all-news/pro...

Another day, another silly modelling report that ignores the costs of inaction and that confuses a "current policies" scenario as a baseline to compare numbers.

Notable to me too is that Alberta implemented North America's first version in 2007, which the federal government modelled theirs after.

Outside of clean electricity, I spend a lot of time climbing. So stoked to see the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup in Edmonton this weekend. Today’s semi-finals and finals are being live streamed if you want to tune in! www.youtube.com/live/sz1JsMh...

Kia is committed to EVs, with their strategy unshaken by tariff talk. I'm excited to see more affordable options open up for North American consumers. electrek.co/2025/02/27/k...

LET’S GO CANADA 🇨🇦