Prairie Lights power project — Canada

Prairie Lights power project is a 400 MW gas power station in Alberta, Canada. It ranks #98 of 1,210 Canada power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 17.8% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_prairielights_canada.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 400 MW, Prairie Lights power project is well above the median gas plant in Canada (170 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #27 largest gas power plant of 112 in Canada by capacity.

Canada has 112 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 37,176 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Wonder Valley power station · Gas · 1,200 MW · Alberta
• Weyerhaeuser Grande Prairie · Biomass · 48 MW · Alberta
• Bear Creek cogeneration power station · Gas · 100 MW · Alberta
• Grande Prairie EcoPower · Biomass · 25 MW · Alberta
• Grande Prairie generating station · Gas · 105 MW · Alberta
• Clairmont power plant · Gas · 170 MW · Alberta

Location

Coordinates 54.847985, -118.784089 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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