Aslan Renewables Partners with DataStream to Set a National Standard for Environmental Data Transparency Across Canada’s Clean Energy Systems

Toronto, ON — April 9, 2026 — Aslan Renewables and DataStream today announced a strategic alliance that will accelerate climate action, unlock the hidden economic value of aging infrastructure, and transform how water quality data is collected and shared across Canadian watersheds.

Aslan Renewables builds modular hydropower systems and is actively working with select Conservation Authorities across Canada to reactivate thousands of existing legacy ice-control and water-control structures as distributed, low-impact hydropower sites. By retrofitting existing infrastructure rather than building new dams, Aslan’s approach aligns clean power generation with long-term watershed protection. Beyond generating power, Aslan designs each hydro site to function as a standardized, continuous environmental monitoring station embedded directly within energy-generating infrastructure.

Through this partnership, water quality data — including river and reservoir temperature profiles and other key environmental indicators — will be published through DataStream’s open platform, making high-quality river data accessible to communities, watershed partners, researchers, and decision-makers across Canada.

Aslan’s data collection and reporting are designed to operate continuously and autonomously, enabled by AI-driven monitoring systems and regulatory reporting frameworks. This approach ensures consistent, high-quality datasets over multi-decade project lifecycles while improving the ability for energy operators to meet environmental standards.

This new data pipeline establishes critical environmental information as shared national infrastructure, ensuring water quality information is freely available to support:

• Watershed assessment and decision-making
• Community engagement, public education, and watershed literacy
• Transparency around infrastructure operation and environmental performance
• Measurement against environmental benchmarks and standards
• National water security objectives, complementing the goals of the Canadian Water Agency by improving the availability, consistency, and accessibility of freshwater data

“Good environmental decisions depend on access to credible data,” said Katherine Balpataky, Executive Director of DataStream. “By supporting open data sharing, this partnership helps ensure clean energy development is aligned with stronger protection of freshwater ecosystems.”

As clean energy transitions toward more distributed networks of power stations, the need for scalable, standardized data management becomes increasingly critical to environmental stewardship. By establishing a consistent model for data-sharing, this collaboration pioneers a modern approach to reducing data fragmentation, easing the burden of duplicative reporting, and making water quality information available for use more widely.

“At Aslan, we believe that reactivating existing infrastructure for clean energy is only part of the opportunity,” said Andrew Murray, CEO of Aslan Renewables. “By sharing environmental data openly through DataStream, we transform these sites into long-term stations of learning, accountability and stewardship. We are excited about the standard we are setting together for the Canadian energy sector.”

Across Canada, as communities, public agencies and Conservation Authorities look for responsible ways to modernize aging assets and navigate the future of water management, Aslan and DataStream see open freshwater data as essential to long-term stewardship and public trust.

About Aslan Renewables

Aslan Renewables is a Canadian clean energy company building modular hydropower systems that retrofit existing dams and water-control infrastructure. Its approach is designed to deliver reliable, low-impact power while supporting community partnership, environmental stewardship, and modern infrastructure resilience.

About DataStream

DataStream is a national platform for sharing, accessing, and using freshwater data across Canada. By making water data more open, comparable, and accessible, DataStream supports stronger watershed collaboration, public education, and informed environmental decision-making. DataStream is CoreTrustSeal certified, an international seal of approval for sustainable and trustworthy data repositories.

Media Contacts

Farzin Mou, Director of Business Operations, farzin.mou@aslanrenewables.ca
Gordon Shallard-Brown, Communications Manager, gshallard@gordonfn.org

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