At least one person has a grasp of the situation.
Andrew Jeffrey is a multimedia journalist with CBC Calgary. He previously worked for CBC News in his hometown of Edmonton, reported for the StarMetro Calgary, and worked as an editor for Toronto-based magazines Strategy and Realscreen. You can reach him at [email protected].
this article extract answers the question about off grid data centre.
good news for KPO.
time for a JV partner to stump up or sell the projects.
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The Alberta government has also highlighted the province's deregulated electricity market as a draw for operators, who can use it for off-grid power generation.
If the generation is completely off grid, it doesn't come to AESO to facilitate these applications. But Engen agreed that the bring-your-own-generation concept makes perfect sense, and that data centres setting up their own power generation could be a sensible way to develop more projects.
AESO has filtered the number of proposals to 15 through the organization's process for consideration. Rob Davidson, AESO vice president of grid reliability, projects and planning, said more projects could be filtered out over the next month.
"It will be all dependent upon each of those projects' ability to get letters of support from their municipality and produce their financial security," Davidson said.
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