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Northland said today its 80 MW / 160 MWh Jurassic battery in Cypress County reached commercial operations. The company called it Alberta's largest storage site, ahead of schedule and under budget, with a 15-year offtake on 100 percent of capacity. That is storage. It is not first power from Jurassic Solar.
The AESO says Phase 1 of its Large Load Integration program is complete. All 1,200 megawatts of the interim connection limit were allocated: 970 megawatts to GLDC and 230 megawatts to Keephills Data Centre Phase I. TransAlta's Keephills site is about 70 kilometres west of Edmonton.
On September 14 TransAlta said its Centralia subsidiary received a U.S. Department of Energy order mandating that Washington State's remaining coal unit stay available for 90 days, until December 12. DOE Order 202-26-44 took effect September 13. The plant is not required to run continuously.
The September 9 Project List amendments remove fossil fuel-fired generating facilities from Impact Assessment Act designation. Capital Power's 250 MW Meta contract in Sturgeon County is still aimed at the back half of 2028, and Alberta has kept large AI loads off the shared grid until then.
On August 13 FERC approved TransAlta's purchase of Mountain Peak and Canyon Peak, about 318 megawatts of new gas peakers near Denver. The June 3 company note put the deal at US$1 billion, including US$750 million of project debt. Canyon Peak still has to reach commercial service.