Alberta's new wind infrastructure capacity leading Canada

Alberta, the nation's epicenter of oil and gas, has taken to the wind, leading Canada in new wind farm capacity last year and now in 2022 wind farm investments are reaching into the billions of dollars as the private sector embraces larger and more advanced turbines.

The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) credits the province’s rapid growth in renewable energy (solar and wind) to the deregulated energy market that has made Alberta the home of Canada’s fastest-growing wind and solar energy sectors. Between 2019 and 2021, the market-based approach to renewables led to over 1,600 MW of contracted capacity by companies and more than $3 billion in Alberta investments.