Building Strathcona Power — August 2026

To recap, I’m building up a boutique energy retailer (Strathcona Power), to be your local, human option for power and natural gas. This is a follow-up to July’s status update. Pricing Update This section is general notes on electricity and natural gas pricing in Alberta, looking back at July and forward to August. The floating price for electricity is bouncing off of the lowest price in a decade. So it’s up from last month, but still incredibly affordable at ~4.1 ¢/kWh. Floating natural gas is low as well, and slightly lower than last month, and ~$1.50/GJ below fixed prices. In short, I remain a fan of both and hope you are signed up on floating rates. Fixed prices are relatively low, but seem to have started to raise, especially seen in the 5 year electricity rate. That said, although the 5 year rate is up more than 1 ¢/kWh over the last 3 months, it’s only back to where it was at the beginning of the year. I suspect (longer term) prices will keep raising, so if you want to lock in,…