The Indigenous-led solar farm redefining Alberta’s energy landscape

An Alberta First Nation is launching a bold new renewable energy project that will consistently crank out enough clean electricity to power 20,000 typical homes for a year.

The Tilley Solar project is a solar farm with nearly 70,000 photovoltaic panels that is expected to become operational this spring and provide 23.6 megawatts of clean power to southern Alberta. The $52-million initiative, located about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary, will reduce Alberta’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 14,200 tonnes annually – the equivalent of removing 4,350 passenger cars from the roads.