Technology giant Microsoft signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement this week for the electricity generated at the 90 megawatt (MW) Big Level wind facility currently under construction in Pennsylvania, being developed by renewable energy producer TransAlta Renewables.
Once a terraced, open-to-the-sky strip mine — the state’s largest coal pit — TransAlta is in the process of repurposing 1,000 acres of the former mine site to a solar farm.
Originally published on Kompulsa. Alberta Innovates–Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) has awarded TransAlta $250,000 for the construction of Alberta’s very first large-scale commercial energy storage system. The system will be powered by 5 commercial-scale Tesla Powerpack battery modules, each the size of a household refrigerator. It is large enough to … [continued]
While private financial institutions & businesses are investing to make Canada a clean energy leader – which citizens want – Ottawa drags it feet.
The state of Washington has announced a plan in cooperation with the global power company TransAlta to shut down all of the coal boilers in the state – all two of them. Eliminating the use of coal power sounds easy enough for Washington, but even with only two boilers to deal with the transition out of coal will be
