Speaker Spotlight: Spencer O’Donnell at ACR’s Environmental Forum

Alberta’s path forward demands bold ideas and practical innovation—and that’s exactly what you’ll find at the Alberta Chamber of Resources’ 2025 Environmental Forum.

Join us for a half-day of insight and discussion on the policies, technologies, and strategies driving Alberta’s environmental leadership.

Spencer O’Donnell

Analyst, Power & Renewables, Orennia

Spencer is a strategic thinker with over seven years of experience in infrastructure development, financial modeling and technical analysis. As a top Analyst at Orennia, he focuses on power and renewables, collaborating with clients to gain insights from our platform and research. Shaped by his previous role leading project development for power and RNG projects at Campus Energy Partners, Spencer supports Orennia's PE and developer clients leverage data to get a strategic edge. Whether modeling complex systems or writing detailed research, Spencer is deeply engaged in the energy transition and the decisions that drive it.

Speaker Session:

Data centers: Is Alberta the promise land?

Following the release of ChatGPT, data centers have completely upended the entire energy industry — from natural gas demand to power markets. And behind the data centers are tech companies, many of them with bold climate goals looking for ways to grow capabilities in AI while minimizing their environmental impact. Alberta has cheap natural gas, engineering talent and a workforce that cares about sustainability. Will we benefit from the data center boom?

Powering Alberta: Innovation & Infrastructure
📅 October 8, 2025
📍 The Ranchmen’s Club - 710 13th Avenue S.W., Calgary AB T2R 0K9
🕘 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM