Utilities in Alberta
In Alberta, you typically have two options when purchasing electricity and natural gas. You can stay with a Default Retailer, or you can sign a contract with a Competitive Retailer to secure a Competitive Rate for your energy (electricity and natural gas). Depending on where you live, you may receive water through your municipality or a private utility.
Default Retailers
The Default Retailer rates are reviewed and approved by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) in Alberta and reflect current market prices. Sometimes, you'll save money on energy bills. Other times, you'll end up paying more.
The Rate of Last Resort is the default rate for electricity, it will remain stable until December 31, 2026. The Default Rate Tariff is the default rate for natural gas, this rate may change monthly depending on market conditions.
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Rate of Last Resort (ROLR)
Cost Comparison Tool
Competitive Retailers
With a fixed rate, your bills will still vary each month but the price you pay per unit of energy (per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity and/or per gigajoule (GJ) of natural gas) will remain the same, or "fixed". If you select a fixed rate, your utility company is guaranteeing that your utility rate will stay the same for a specified period of time.
With a variable rate (also known as a floating rate), energy prices are based on current market conditions for electricity and natural gas. This means that the price you pay per kWh of electricity and/or per GJ of natural gas will depend on how much electricity or natural gas currently costs.
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Potential benefits of a Competitive Retailer
Potential benefits of an Independent Gas Marketer
Water and sewage services
Depending on whether you live in an urban or rural community, water and sewage services will be provided by either your municipality (if you live in an urban center) or by a private utility (for rural communities).
For more information, visit your local municipality's website.
Kambo Energy Group respectfully acknowledges the unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Territories, on which many of our team live and work. We also gratefully acknowledge the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations), on which our team also lives and works.