Building Strathcona Power — July 2026

To recap, I’m building up a boutique energy retailer (Strathcona Power), to be your local, human options for power and natural gas. This is a follow-up to April’s status update. June was busy enough that I missed that update/included the highlights here. Pricing Update This section is general notes on electricity and natural gas pricing in Alberta, looking back at May and June and forward to July. The floating price for electricity came in at the lowest its been in a decade, continuing its currently low streak. Floating natural gas is low as well, more than a dollar below available fixed prices. In short, I’m a fan of both and hope you are signed up on them. Fixed prices are relatively low, but seem to have (temporarily?) stopped dropping. We’re starting to see data centers announced1 with more promised, and so this is pointed to for a reason that longer terms for power and gas are higher. If you want to sign up for a fixed gas price for next winter, this might be a good time to do…