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Originally Posted by First Lady
Just finished listening to an AESO rep on the Rutherford show. He closed with a strong confirmation that yesterday's issue was completely a generation problem and additional transmission wouldn't have changed the result.
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Yeah, a lack of generation on a high demand day doesn't mean we need more transportation (two transmission lines bigger than any we've ever built before, at the same time) it means we need more generation.
If power producers were paid a transmission differential so that they got some of the savings from not building transmission lines for building power plants closer to loads, we wouldn't need new transmission.
We could build new power plants and build transmission lines to move the power to market. Or we could build new power plants close to market.