Building Strathcona Power — April 2026

An update on April pricing and a look towards May. Also and 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. Dicussion 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.

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What is the Regulated Rate Option?

The Regulated Rate Option, sometimes called the “RRO” or “default option” is a holdover from the process of deregulation. Before deregulation (ca. 1995), one company would own the generating plant (that made the power) and the wires between the generating plant and your house, and would also send you the bill, i.e. they were your “retailer”.

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