Entropy's Glacier Plant Now Runs Power and Capture Together

Entropy Inc. commissioned Glacier Phase 2 in Saddle Hills County, Alberta, on July 30, 2026, pairing carbon capture with new power generation in one facility. The milestone marks the first time a post-combustion capture system has run directly on a gas turbine generating power for the grid.

The commissioning caps years of phased construction. It also gives Alberta a working example of low-carbon baseload power.

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What Just Happened at Entropy's Glacier Facility?

Entropy finished commissioning all Glacier Phase 2 equipment in July 2026, per the company's July 30 announcement.

The project adds a 15 megawatt Solar T130 turbine with carbon capture built directly into the co-generation unit. That turbine works alongside roughly 30 megawatts of reciprocating engines already capturing emissions at Advantage Energy Ltd.'s Glacier Gas Plant.

Combined, the two systems bring Entropy's total capture capacity at the site to 45 megawatts. Entropy targets capture of 192,000 tonnes of CO2 per year across eleven gas-fired engines and one turbine (Entropy Inc., July 2026).

Construction crews logged more than 250,000 work hours without a serious safety incident, including extensive work at heights (Entropy Inc., July 2026). Crews also tied in all plant-to-plant interconnects during a strict three-week turnaround at the Glacier Gas Plant.

Power and Capture Now Run as One System

Advantage now buys 6 megawatts of power from Glacier Phase 2 under a 15-year agreement priced at $85 per megawatt hour. A third-party firm calculated the power's design-basis carbon intensity at 84 kilograms of CO2 per megawatt hour, using a lifecycle assessment (Entropy Inc., July 2026).

Surplus electricity beyond Advantage's needs gets sold as merchant power to the Alberta Electric System Operator grid. That dual role, cutting emissions at a gas plant while exporting clean power, is what separates Glacier Phase 2 from a standalone capture retrofit.

Other Alberta operators are chasing a similar combination of new generation and storage capacity. That pattern is visible at Alberta's first dedicated carbon storage hub, which began receiving CO2 late last year.

The Track Record Behind Phase 2's Numbers

Entropy has operated commercial carbon capture at Glacier since 2022. That is one of the longest continuous post-combustion capture records in the industry (Entropy Inc., July 2026).

Phase 1b posted capture rates above 90 percent and run times above 98 percent (Entropy Inc., June 2025). Heat of regeneration ran between 2.5 and 2.9 gigajoules per tonne of CO2 captured. Entropy said in that same 2025 update that Phase 1a was being folded into Phase 2 operations.

That consolidation is meant to let Entropy track the whole site through one system instead of several. EntropyIQ, the company's real-time carbon accounting platform, measures captured CO2 at each stage, from the plant's exhaust stack to the underground storage well.

Entropy backed that record with expansion elsewhere too, including its 2025 purchase of carbon storage hub interests across Saskatchewan and southern Alberta.

Glacier Phase	Commissioned	Cumulative CO2 Target	What It Added
Phase 1A and 1B	2022 to 2023	32,000 tonnes per year	First commercial post-combustion capture trains, 16,000 tpa each
Phase 2	2026	192,000 tonnes per year	15 MW co-generation turbine, 45 MW total capture
Power carbon intensity	Design-basis, 2026	84 kg CO2 per MWh	Verified by third-party lifecycle assessment

Why Does the CCS Industry Call This a Milestone?

Global CCS Institute CEO Jarad Daniels says Glacier Phase 2 is the first post-combustion capture system running on a gas turbine built for power generation.

Power demand is climbing across North America, driven partly by data centers. Firm power that also captures its emissions gives grid planners an option beyond wind, solar, or gas.

Dow's cogeneration and carbon capture unit planned for Fort Saskatchewan follows the same logic. Shell's Polaris project near Edmonton is designed to capture roughly 650,000 tonnes of CO2 annually (Shell, 2026). That CO2 is stored at Shell's nearby Atlas hub, showing the same provincial appetite for capture and storage infrastructure.

What Policy Support Is Behind Canada's CCS Buildout?

Three overlapping incentive programs underpin Entropy's CCS economics in Alberta. These include the federal Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Investment Tax Credit and the Alberta Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Investment Program. Saddle Hills County passed a local tax bylaw too (Entropy Inc., July 2026).

Entropy has invested more than $250 million across its Canadian CCS project portfolio, with applications still moving through federal review.

Texas cut its Class VI well review time by taking over permitting authority from the EPA in November 2025. That shift is now accelerating Gulf Coast CCS projects.

Momentum is building across Alberta's oil sands sector too, where early carbon capture financing talks with the Canada Growth Fund have since advanced further. Canada, Alberta, and the Oil Sands Alliance signed a trilateral agreement on July 2, 2026, to advance the long-planned Pathways CCS network. Binding agreements are targeted for November 15, 2026 (Government of Canada, July 2026). Canada's broader CCS pipeline, including projects that mineralize captured carbon into stone, keeps expanding too.

Momentum extends beyond CCS too. U.S. regulators recently restored funding for direct air capture hubs and hydrogen projects that rely on similar capture and storage infrastructure.

What Glacier Phase 2 Signals for Alberta's Grid

Glacier Phase 2 gives Alberta a working template for building new gas-fired generation with capture from day one. Entropy Inc. expects to publish verified performance data for the new phase in the coming months, building on a strong Phase 1b record.

For an industry watching how firm power and emissions reduction can coexist, Glacier Phase 2 offers a working answer already running in the field.

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