Building Strathcona Power — September 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 August’s status update. Pricing Update This section is general notes on electricity and natural gas pricing in Alberta, looking back at August and forward to September. The floating price for electricity is bouncing off of the lowest price in a decade two months ago. So it’s up again from last month, but still incredibly affordable at ~5.4 ¢/kWh. Floating natural gas is low as well, and slightly lower than last month (again), but tighter (to fixed prices) at ~$1/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 have falled across the board this month. If you want to lock in, now would probably be a good time. Natural gas is getting very cheap for shorter terms, and so if you want to look in the 1 year rate for the winter, now would be a good…