Authorities of Canada to assist clear air and native financial progress by powering federal operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan with clear electrical energy

EDMONTON, AB, Feb. 3, 2023 /CNW/ – The Authorities of Canada is taking significant motion on its Greening Authorities Technique dedication to energy federal buildings with 100% renewable electrical energy by 2025 to assist battle local weather change and assist native renewable electrical energy initiatives.

At present, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Affiliate Minister of Finance, on behalf of the Honourable Helena Jaczek, Minister of Public Providers and Procurement, introduced 2 initiatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan that assist the Authorities of Canada’s dedication to investing in renewable vitality and reaching the aim of net-zero emissions by 2050.

Public Providers and Procurement Canada (PSPC) has awarded Capital Energy a 23-year contract valued as much as $500 million, to energy federal buildings in Alberta with inexperienced electrical energy, efficient January 1, 2023. The contract worth is predicated on an estimated 250,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of annual electrical energy required by federal amenities within the province. This electrical energy will probably be attributed to a brand new proposed wind vitality technology facility in Alberta, anticipated to be operational by January 1, 2025. As a part of the settlement, Capital Energy will safe an fairness partnership with native Indigenous organizations associated to the venture.

Minister Boissonnault additionally introduced that PSPC signed an settlement with Saskatchewan’s principal provider of electrical energy, SaskPower, to energy federal authorities operations in Saskatchewan utilizing renewable electrical energy, which totals about 87,000 MWh of electrical energy per yr. With this settlement, the federal authorities helps the continued improvement of renewable electrical energy infrastructure inside the province.

As much as 25% of the federal authorities’s electrical energy consumption will probably be attributed to new photo voltaic initiatives inside the province, which started working in summer time 2022. The remaining 75% will come from a brand new Saskatchewan-based wind vitality technology venture anticipated to be operational by 2024. These initiatives embrace alternatives for Indigenous participation by means of facility improvement partnerships and/or employment and coaching alternatives.

As soon as these initiatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan are totally operational, the Authorities of Canada’s mixed emissions in these provinces will probably be diminished by about 166 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide equal (ktCO2e), which is equal to the annual greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions of greater than 50,800 gas-powered passenger autos.

Quotes

“These initiatives are an essential step to assist communities and shield the environment, by investing in renewable electrical energy. By means of long-term initiatives like these, we’re greening federal operations, combating local weather change and making a more healthy setting for Canadians.”

The Honourable Helena Jaczek
Minister of Public Providers and Procurement Canada

“At present’s announcement is one other step in direction of reaching our authorities’s emission discount targets. Our settlement right now with Capital Energy and Saskpower will take away the GHG emissions equal of fifty,800 automobiles off our roads, and develop the economic system proper right here on the Prairies.”

The Honourable Randy Boissonnault
Minister of Tourism and Affiliate Minister of Finance

“Our authorities is taking actual motion to battle local weather change and is dedicated to greening our buildings by means of using 100% clear electrical energy, in keeping with the commitments we have made by means of the Greening Authorities Technique. These agreements are a key step on the trail to net-zero authorities operations by 2050.”

The Honourable Mona Fortier
President of the Treasury Board of Canada

“Shifting to inexperienced vitality at Authorities of Canada amenities in Alberta and Saskatchewan, together with at Parks Canada administered locations, will assist scale back GHG emissions and impacts of local weather change. Parks Canada welcomes thousands and thousands of holiday makers yearly to expertise nature and study extra about pure and cultural historical past. Quickly, these iconic locations will even function seen examples of the potential for inexperienced vitality options.”

The Honourable Steven Guilbeault
Minister of Setting and Local weather Change and Minister answerable for Parks Canada

“As the most important federal electrical energy shopper, Nationwide Defence and our authorities writ-large are dedicated to decreasing emissions the place our personnel reside, work and prepare. At present’s announcement will be certain that all federal Nationwide Defence buildings in Saskatchewan and Alberta are fully powered with clear electrical energy by 2025. These contracts will create sustainable financial alternatives for native and Indigenous companies whereas persevering with to make sure that our Canadian Armed Forces personnel have the trendy amenities and infrastructure they should do the roles that we ask of them.”

The Honourable Anita Anand
Minister of Nationwide Defence

“We’re proud to ship clear electrical energy to the Alberta grid to fulfill 100% of the electrical energy demand from the Authorities of Canada’s buildings throughout the province. Collaborative agreements like this assist our collective net-zero objectives, present alternatives to meaningfully interact Indigenous communities, and assist advance the event of renewable energy technology amenities.”

Chris Kopecky
Senior Vice President, Chief Authorized, Growth and Business Officer of Capital Energy

Fast info

• Inexperienced energy is electrical energy produced from non-GHG emitting vitality sources. In Canada, nearly all of clear electrical energy technology within the provinces and territories comes from hydroelectric, nuclear, wind and solar energy technology.

• Presently, 80% of energy consumed by the Authorities of Canada comes from clear sources equipped by the provincial and territorial utility grids.

• Along with the Alberta and Saskatchewan initiatives, Canada can also be creating a procurement technique to purchase the equal of 128,000 MWh per yr price of latest clear vitality technology in Canada, which might allow the federal authorities to attribute its vitality consumption as being clear in areas the place new clear renewable sources should not but obtainable.

• These initiatives construct on Canada’s present work in greening federal operations throughout the nation. In August 2019, PSPC entered into an Agreement for Implementation to Purchase Net-New Renewable Electricity with the Province of Nova Scotia. The Province of Nova Scotia subsequently introduced the creation of the Inexperienced Selection Program in March 2020, a clear electrical energy procurement program for the federal authorities and different giant provincial electrical energy prospects.

• Discussions are additionally ongoing between PSPC and the Province of New Brunswick to determine a clear electrical energy program for federal amenities.

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