The Energy Mix – Feb 19, 2026
From transmission lines, critical minerals, and solar projects to wind turbines, battery energy storage systems and green hydrogen, First Nations across Canada are building serious equity in the country’s energy transition.
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Meanwhile in Saskatchewan, the Anishinabek Power Alliance has secured a 50% equity partnership in Neoen’s Mino Giizis solar farm, to be built near Lajord, 45 kilometres southeast of Regina in Treaty 4 territory. Slated to be the largest solar farm in Saskatchewan, the project will generate enough electricity to power roughly 30,000 homes.
- Neoen has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Saskatchewan Power Corporation for its 157 MWp / 100 MWac Mino Giizis Solar Energy Facility
- The SaskPower procurement process was co-led by the First Nations Power Authority
- Neoen’s Mino Giizis project has a 50 per cent First Nations equity partnership with the Anishinabek Power Alliance
- Mino Giizis will be the largest solar farm in Saskatchewan, and is expected to be operational in 2028
Neoen, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Saskatchewan Power Corporation (SaskPower) following a competitive tender initiated by a joint agreement between SaskPower and the First Nations Power Authority (FNPA). The PPA covers 100 per cent of the output from the 157 MWp / 100 MWac Mino Giizis Solar Energy Facility, located in the Rural Municipality of Lajord No. 128 in south central Saskatchewan.