Members of the renewable energy industry say the Alberta government has knocked the wind out of them by pausing all approvals of new power plants for nearly seven months.
“I think it was a mistake,” says Vittoria Bellissimo, president and CEO of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA). “I’m worried about investor confidence in our electricity market. I’m worried about affordability for customers. I’m worried that we took something that was going very well in Alberta, and we had an advantage, and we’re giving up our advantage.”
The government on Thursday morning announced the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC), the agency which evaluates and
