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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I'm just providing context. Yes, we need gas for now as I posted. But my point of there's still plenty of coal that can be replaced with renewables.
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Not really. Alberta has 3700MW in coal capacity, currently generating 1600MW. If you build 1600MW of wind and solar, you also need to build ~1600MW of gas to back it up. You can't have the grid depending on unreliable generation. So you can build as much renewable power as you want, but you also need to near match that in reliable generation. Until we find a way to store that generation capacity for a week or more(or import from elsewhere), that's just the reality of it. Batteries are nowhere near capable of that.