Overview

• Premier Danielle Smith announced that public consultations will be held this autumn to discuss adding nuclear energy to the province’s electricity mix.
• Discussions will include deploying factory-built small modular reactors at remote oilsands sites to provide low-carbon baseload power.
• The government will also seek feedback on a proposed multi-unit CANDU plant near Peace River with up to 4,800 megawatts of capacity.
• Soaring power needs from steam-assisted gravity drainage operations and new artificial intelligence data centres are driving the push for nuclear options.
• U.S. developer X Energy Reactor Co. is pursuing opportunities to connect its advanced SMRs both to the provincial grid and directly to industrial projects.