The Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) has just released Running Hard to Adapt in a Dangerously Fast-Changing Industry by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the FCPP. The paper conducts an indepth valuation and strategic appraisal of SaskPower, using an...
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A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of SaskPower
SaskPower is the electric power generating holding company and retail utility supplying the province of Saskatchewan. It also buys power from independent suppliers within the province. Unlike some of its Crown utility peers in Canada, it is not in bad financial...
A Valuation of SaskPower
Keeping Sask Power and being compelled to throw in more billions of dollars to keep it viable, or having an additional 15,000 teachers, nurses, or paramedics? This is the choice Saskatchewan would have if this Crown asset were sold. There are two generally accepted...
SaskPower: Paying The Way For Innovation
Summary SaskPower is a crown corporation established in 1929. With a staff strength of approximately 3200 permanent, full time employees, SaskPower supports growth and improvement of quality of life of nearly 528,000 customers spread across 652,000 square kilometres.1...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Valuation Analysis of SaskPower
Executive Summary This analysis arrives at approximations of the value of SaskPower, a provincial Crown corporation owned by the government, and thus the citizens and taxpayers, of the province of Saskatchewan. The valuation ranges could be useful in determining...
SaskPower Value to Taxpayers Is High Now, But Could Decline
Provincial, or ‘Crown’ ownership of public utilities is a very common feature of life in Canada, and, until recently, rarely questioned. These very large companies are the monopoly providers of electricity, water, and sometimes gas, in all but a few Canadian...
Frontier Centre for Public Policy Values SaskPower at $2.35 – 2.62 Billion
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an independent research institute based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, released today an independent valuation of the potential market value of SaskPower, the provincial Crown electric power utility owned by the citizens and taxpayers of...
Old Ideas Fading At SaskPower
The mother of Canada’s social democratic movement changing her ways?
A Plan to Save Coal, Power Generation, and the Oil Industry in Southeast Saskatchewan
Stop moving to shut down Saskatchewan coal – it could be the salvation of our oil industry
One (Megawatt) Is the Loneliest Number, But Hundreds of Batteries are Absurd
You can build a lot of reactors or HELE coal plants with CCS for a lot less
What Doubling The Grid Really Means
Recently my daughter called me while on her way back from a Costco run in Regina, heading home to Weyburn. She noted that it appears they are twinning the highway between Regina and Weyburn. Indeed, they are, I explained. And several years later, they’ll probably get...
Alberta Won The Energy Lottery
Alberta won the energy lottery, yet it had to beg its neighbours if they could spare a megawatt?
Alberta’s Close Brush with Blackouts Stiffens Moes Resolve
Alberta’s close brush with possible rolling blackouts stiffens Moe’s resolve to keep the lights on. Moe reiterates: “We will not attempt the impossible when it comes to power production” The past weekend proved to be a close-run thing for the Alberta electrical...