Just a reminder: every single kW/h of Wind, Solar or other "renewables" must have 100% backup. That backup cannot reasonably be hydro or nuclear, those are "baseline" sources. That leaves FF and batteries, or thermal salt, but that's not proven to work on a large scale yet.
Without backup there would be regular brown and black-outs. Those are hugely destructive to industry and commerce. Many companies left Ontario during the Liberal Party reign there because of their "Green Policies" making electricity 3x more expensive. If regular, random blackouts were added in? The flight would be huuuuge.
They shut down Nuclear reactors & coal, "replacing" them with Solar mostly, and Wind. For "backup" they import expensive electricity from Quebec or the USA. Manitoba is 600km away from the demand, eh? There's only 1-2 power lines connecting MB with Western Ontario, which is largely unpopulated until you hit Thunder Bay :/
Just a reminder: every single kW/h of Wind, Solar or other "renewables" must have 100% backup. That backup cannot reasonably be hydro or nuclear, those are "baseline" sources. That leaves FF and batteries, or thermal salt, but that's not proven to work on a large scale yet.
Without backup there would be regular brown and black-outs. Those are hugely destructive to industry and commerce. Many companies left Ontario during the Liberal Party reign there because of their "Green Policies" making electricity 3x more expensive. If regular, random blackouts were added in? The flight would be huuuuge.
They shut down Nuclear reactors & coal, "replacing" them with Solar mostly, and Wind. For "backup" they import expensive electricity from Quebec or the USA. Manitoba is 600km away from the demand, eh? There's only 1-2 power lines connecting MB with Western Ontario, which is largely unpopulated until you hit Thunder Bay :/