Jason R. Wang

🦉 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". 🦅

Cheaper, cleaner — and not available here Even as we rail in outrage at Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian government has imposed our own punishingly high tariffs on Chinese vehicles — high enough to ensure they are kept out of Canada and t...

🚗🔋 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...

Here’s a breakdown of the total with other key sectors.

If this data is of interest, I'll try to clean up my charts and publish it.

The former holds ~2% growth y-o-y while the latter's boom-bust rollercoaster is obvious. 🎢

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...

A great article! I just saw a mouse at a very popular downtown pub recently and was wondering how common it was.

I'd be happy if we can figure fusion out, but I'd be happier to get more solar panels installed first!

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! ☀️😎

Totally agree! E-Bikes are game changers. My favourite part is that they're not just for urban centres, but rural folks too. I've met people lauding them for helping get around their farm and into towns while saving gas.

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 renewable energy

#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.

First Nations on B.C.'s North Coast won't support Alberta's pipeline proposal 'now or ever,' says chief | CBC News The president of an organization representing First Nations along British Columbia's North Coast says it won't support a new bitumen pipeline proposal from Alberta's premier "now or ever."

"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

The coolest new home electrification widget Smart meters that accelerate electrification by going from a consumer-led to an infrastructure-driven approach.

📻 In the meantime, this @volts.wtf episode is worth a listen: "What if I can save money not just for an individual customer, but we can actually reduce the cost of ... the distribution grid? ... the average utilization rate of the US distribution system is around 42%." www.volts.wtf/p/the-cooles...

💡 The latter point is the fault of myself and my colleagues, not of @maxfawcett.bsky.social. The electricity system is frustratingly difficult to understand even for those of us who spend all our time thinking about it. We're struggling to explain what a "modernized" electricity grid looks like.

☀️ 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.

Janetta is so right. Today's announcement is so disappointing to see as an Albertan. There are tens of billions of dollars that wind, solar, battery storage, and grid modernization companies are very happy to bring to Alberta. But they're met with barriers, not open arms.

“It’s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding."

Alberta should heed private sector caution on pipelines | Pembina Institute CALGARY — JANETTA McKENZIE, director of the Pembina Institute’s oil and gas program, made the following statement in response to news that the Government of Alberta will be the proponent for a new oil...

🚩 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

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Depends on what timeframe. We were on track to hit the 30% by 2030 legislated goal by ~2027, but it all depends on how the market redesign and details of several new AUC rules end up, like transmission cost allocation.

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.

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.

This volume may rebound somewhat as the AESO opens up its third cluster process for processing new generation projects in October 2025, but without reversing some of its policy decisions – including in the current electricity market redesign, I expect to see more cold feet from investors.

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...