Overview
- Pembina Pipeline and partners announced a final investment decision to build the C$4.6 billion Greenlight Electricity Centre, a 932 MW natural-gas plant in Sturgeon County that will serve a large unnamed data-centre customer under a long-term tolling agreement.
- The companies expect the facility to be in service by late 2030 and say it will consume roughly 150 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, creating new demand for Western Canadian producers.
- Ownership is split with Pembina and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners each holding 47.5% and Kineticor 5%, Pembina will fund about C$2.3 billion, Siemens Energy will supply turbines, and an Aecon–Técnicas Reunidas consortium is the EPC contractor.
- The Alberta government framed the July 2 announcement as enabled by a 2025 federal–provincial energy agreement and the province’s 'bring your own power' model that prioritizes data centres that build or contract their own generation, and it highlighted expected construction jobs and future royalties.
- Clean-energy groups including the Pembina Institute say the project shows how current rules bias projects toward gas over renewables, note permits allow capacity to double to about 1.86 GW, and warn of higher emissions and local industrial impacts if similar projects follow.