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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
More solar can't be anything but good for Alberta, particularly with how many sunny days we have (1292 kWh/kW total photovoltaic potential in Calgary alone).
Alberta puts out 8 MW total solar, with half of that coming from two large farms (Green Acres Hutterite and Bassano). Sadly, in comparison, cloudy Ontario's total solar is at 2356 MW, or nearly 300x our output.
Even more sadly, solar is still not a terribly effective means of energy generation, with a city of ~1 million requiring ~10,000 MW yearly to keep it online.
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with a green energy cost of 9.2 billion paid for by the taxpayer. It's good people want to go green since coal powered plants in alberta produce the equivalent carbon of the alberta oil sands. However it bothers me how governments have no problem throwing around people's money. It should be up to private business with maybe some tax incentives or something.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...in-extra-costs