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ENERGY: Make money by producing your own electricity and selling it to the grid
        (AlbertaIndex, February 18, Monday) --- Make money selling electricity to the Alberta power grid.

    That’s what the province’s new micro-generation regulation promises by enabling Albertans to produce their own electricity and selling it to the grid.

       

Implemented early this month, the new policy will allow Albertans to generate their own environmentally friendly electricity and receive credit for any power they don’t use and send into the electricity grid.

Advancements in small generation technologies give consumers practical options to generate their own environmentally friendly electricity. These options include generation from solar panels, small-scale hydro, wind, biomass, micro-cogeneration and fuel cells.

“Alberta’s electricity market encourages efficiency, innovation and consumer choice. This new policy will support efforts by consumers to participate in the development of renewable and alternative energy,” said Energy Minister Mel Knight.

“Albertans are looking for more choices with respect to the source of their electricity, and the province’s new micro-generation regulation will provide that.”

Alberta has significantly increased its electricity generation from renewable resources by more than 77 per cent since 1998.

At over 1,600 megawatts, renewable energy now accounts for 13 per cent of Alberta’s total generating capacity. This includes more than 500 megawatts of wind-generated electricity - the highest amount per capita of any province in Canada.



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