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Originally Posted by opendoor
Power generation is a bit of a red herring for almost all of Canada outside of the prairies. Over 80% of Canada's electricity generation is Hydro/Nuclear/Wind/Solar/other renewables, and about 75% of Canada's combustible fuel power generation is happening in just Alberta and Saskatchewan (and a significant and increasing majority of that is from gas).
So talking about natural gas and nuclear as magic bullets is kind of misplaced for Canada, at least until we have the technology to electrify heavy industry, agriculture, oil & gas production, etc. SMRs can help with some of that (particularly heavy industry and a portion of its heat requirements), but they're still in their infancy right now.
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Not misplaced at all, as we need to be exporting it as LNG to the rest of the world.
Also, just because the majority of our power is coming from hydro, it doesn't mean that the majority of our heating & cooling is being done with electric.