2023 Performance
- AltaLink added five new electric vehicles to its fleet in 2023, along with charging stations at key company locations. Electric and hybrid passenger vehicles and half-tons are part of a 10-year green fleet plan aimed at reducing emissions.
- Energy audits of eight AltaLink facilities in 2023 highlighted opportunities to reduce AltaLink’s carbon emissions profile. AltaLink is reviewing recommendations and starting to implement solutions in 2024.
- Two wildfires and a spring snowstorm caused damage to 254 AltaLink structures across 16 different transmission lines, launching what became AltaLink’s largest restoration effort to-date.
Sustainability in Action: Hard at work for our feathered friends
Osprey returning to Alberta’s Banff National Park each spring now have a safer place to nest after mitigation work performed by AltaLink in 2023. When osprey nests were discovered along AltaLink’s transmission line between the Town of Banff and Lake Louise, deterrents were installed where needed, and artificial nesting platforms added in safer positions on the structures.
Avian Protection Plan
Sustainable Electricity Leader
In 2014, AltaLink was honoured to be the first electricity transmission company, and only the second electricity company in Canada to receive Electricity Canada’s Sustainable Electricity LeaderTM designation.
The designation is eligible for renewal every five years. In 2019, AltaLink became the first Canadian utility to be re-designated, reflecting our ongoing commitment to meeting the needs of our customers, communities and employees through sustainable business practices.
The designation was developed for utility companies across Canada and requires utilities to commit to standards for environmental and social responsibility. In addition to the standards, companies must also pass a third-party external verification of their observance to the standard.