Overview

• Premier Danielle Smith launched a formal public engagement effort, naming MLA Chantelle de Jonge to chair a panel on potential nuclear generation.
• An online survey runs to Sept. 25 and a request for information from industry and local governments is open to Oct. 25, with outreach to Indigenous communities underway.
• Smith said the province expects private developers to finance and build reactors, with a Crown corporation as a fallback if baseload supply cannot be secured.
• Prospects range from small modular reactors for oilsands operations to full-scale plants for the grid, with large data centres flagged as major prospective users.
• Alberta’s grid remains largely gas-fired, and the Pembina Institute reports 11 gigawatts of wind, solar and storage projects have been withdrawn from the connection queue since October 2023.