Prairie Sky Power Plant Tours
As you may have heard, our
Prairie Sky Power Plant Tours went live on July 25th. If you have not grabbed your tickets yet I suggest you do quickly. We worked very closely with
Big E Tours,
EllisDon,
DIALOG,
Planworks, and
Thomas Group. Of course, the vision for the tour concept in the famed power plant in West Rossdale would not have been possible without buy-in from both EPCOR and the City of Edmonton.
Team Update
As Prairie Sky continues to grow and become more sophisticated we have added another individual to the management team. Krista Wright P.Eng., has joined the leadership team as the Director of Program Development. She will be working very closely with the technical project development team and also participating in the framework discussions with the City. Her primary role will be to leverage her engineering mind and business acumen to ask tough questions every step of the way to ensure there are no gaps between the project's technical evolution and its business case. Krista is a project management wizard with a firm grasp on finance and strategic planning. She has been involved in some of the largest projects in the province. And, like the rest of the team, she thinks big and takes action.
Phase Two Project Development Update
Phase two project development has three unique teams working toward a very integrated outcome - the business case. Specialist teams are focused on the following:
1. Technical Project Development
The technical project development team being led by
DIALOG, has made great progress. Additional firms that have successfully responded to our RFPs for specific scopes of work have since been onboarded.
Doppelmayr,
RWDI,
Williams Engineering,
Spencer Environmental,
Tetra Tech,
SCJ Alliance, and
EllisDon have all been formally engaged to assist in phase two project development. In the coming months we will present the concept design and commercial programming for the stations as well as more detailed information on the location of the towers. This vision will be informed by geotechnical, civil, wind, environmental, and constructability reports from these firms.
2. Master Agreement Framework Negotiations
The agreement framework discussions with the City are progressing smoothly.
MLT Aikens has been engaged to represent Prairie Sky on fundamentals such as real estate, rights-of-way, and the operating relationship with Edmonton Transit Services.
3. Business Case
The importance of the business case cannot be overstated. It will be a single document that brings together all of the facts, figures, agreements, reports, regional economic opportunities and technical project realities into one coherent vision for the path forward. It will demonstrate the willingness and capacity of the private sector to develop, build, stabilize, and operate Edmonton's urban gondola for the long term.
Upcoming Milestones
With positive outcomes anticipated from the technical project development, master agreement framework, and business case teams we have tentatively committed to present the outcomes of phase two project development and the business case to Mayor and Council, as well as Edmontonians, in early December 2020. That is a very tight timeline given the transformational nature of this project but we have the capacity and the team to make it happen. We will keep you all posted.
~ JHC
