Building Strathcona Power — September 2026

An update on August pricing and a look forward. Also an update on the business, including successes and setbacks.

For pricing, floating electricity came in (again) slightly higher than last month, but it’s bouncing off the lowest price in a decade from two months ago! Floating natural gas remains low, and ticked slightly lower, as well. You’re on our floating rates, right? Fixed rates have come down across the board; if you’re looking to lock in for the winter, now is a good time.

The past month has seen signups slightly higher, and I got my second marketing campaign live and showing nice results. My first tranche of generation has started the phyiscal installation.

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Building Strathcona Power — August 2026

An update on August pricing and a look forward. Also an update on the business, including successes and setbacks (including (potential) funding blowing up).

For pricing, floating electricity came in last month slightly higher, but it’s bouncing off the lowest price in a decade! Floating natural gas remains low as well. You’re on our floating rates, right?

The past month has seen signups hold steady, and I got my second marketing campaign live. My first tranche of generation I hope to have installed on the 24th of this month.

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Building Strathcona Power — July 2026

An update on July pricing and a look forward. Also an update on the business, including successes and setbacks (too many setbacks…).

For pricing, floating electricity came in last month at the lowest it’s been in a decade! Floating natural gas remains low as well. You’re on our floating rates, right?

The past month has seen signups hold steady, and one of my major goals for the coming month is to launch a second marketing campaign to push that up. Getting generation live is still stuck dealing with paperwork, although I have several promising financing leads.

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Building Strathcona Power — April 2026

An update on April pricing and a look towards May. Also an update on the business, including successes and setbacks.

The past month has seen signups trending upwards, and one of my major goals for the coming month is to solidify and extend that trend. Discussion re a proposed change to the Backend agreement is taking up more time that I’d hoped. And getting generation live is still stuck dealing with paperwork.

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Building Strathcona Power — March 2026

In which I provide a pricing update for March and looking towards April, and a rundown of the success and struggles of the last month.

Most of this past month has been spent working on getting more generation online. But I’m discovering that many of those projects will have much poorer returns than I’d initially hoped for due to high (only now confirmed) installation costs.

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A new series — Building in Public

I’ve started a new series of blog posts documenting my efforts to grow Strathcona Power. The difference between us and “big utilities” is that there’s a real person behind the website and the company. more ...