Powerful Changes: Alberta’s Electricity Market Redesign with Blake Shaffer

Recently, Alberta announced significant changes to its power market: short-term changes to stop economic withholding and a long-term redesign of Alberta’s deregulated electricity market into a restructured energy market (REM). This week, our guest, Blake Shaffer, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, helps us understand these changes.Here are some questions Jackie and Peter asked Blake: Why does Alberta need a market...