TRANSALTA: Innovation and Re-Invention of TransAlta's Energy Mix

摘要

TransAlta will do more in the next five to 10 years than we accomplished in the first 100 years of our history. A quick look back: our first power plants were fueled with hydropower in the 1900s-then coal in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s (even as late as 2011)-and natural gas in the 1980s, 1990s, and the turn of the century. In those days, TransAlta's mission was to supply low-cost generation-bar none, no exceptions-and we did. In the 2000s, we were the first large-scale electric company in Canada to invest in wind energy, including the first wind projects built in Canada. We also invested in carbon capture research and innovation, proving that we could reduce coal emissions lower than natural gas emissions.