Alberta announced late last year that it will create a new electricity capacity market. This capacity market will operate in parallel with the province’s existing energy only electricity market (“EOM”) and ancillary services market. The capacity market will provide a new potential source of revenue to generators for having the capacity to generate electricity, even… Read More
Earlier this month, we attended the Alberta Electric System Operator’s (AESO’s) first stakeholder engagement session in Calgary on the design of Alberta’s forthcoming capacity market. As we wrote about in Alberta to Cap Electricity Rates and Bring in a Capacity Market, the provincial government first announced the introduction of a capacity market in November. Stakeholders… Read More
