E513 – Rosa Twyman, Energy Markets, Renewables, and Consumer Impact
“If renewables drop off, and they could would drop off very quickly because the wind suddenly stops to blow, you need other resources that ramp up very fast to make up when that drop happens.”
The energy transition isn’t just a climate challenge, it’s a regulatory puzzle. And Rosa Twyman knows where the pieces do (and don’t) fit. As a lawyer who’s spent her career representing innovators and incumbents in Alberta’s deregulated electricity market, Rosa has a front-row seat to the friction points: rules that lag behind innovation, frameworks that fail to reward flexibility, and the legal uncertainty that makes capital hesitate. Rosa speaks with the clarity of someone who’s been in the hearing room when big ideas hit bureaucratic walls. She breaks down why Alberta’s market design is both a strength and a stress point, and why Canada needs to stop treating regulation like a patch job—and start treating it like infrastructure. This isn’t about left or right politics. It’s about making sure the system can keep up with the ambition of the people trying to fix it.