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Originally Posted by #-3
I think at some point in renewables development, it is not only going to be about base load generation, but we will need overbuild infrastructure with surge demand. Something like ideal syn-gas production that is not some much energy efficient but a good way to burn off excess wind and solar generation into something that is useful in the future, or gravity generator towers...
Unfortunately I'm not deep enough into it to have a good intuition on what that will end up looking like. But for all of this to work they are going to need to build a fair bit more than 17GW to supply 17GW.
But yes Alberta turn towards renewables has been impressive, and the speed it's happening too.
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Absolutely they'll need to build out more, as I'm sure there's people on here itching to type out that installed nameplate capacity isn't actual output. Regardless, I don't see how this is anything but a massive showing of what's possible. An 8x improvement in what, 5-6 years? That's massive. And there's no reason to think that the 17GW in the next 3 years is set in stone. It could very well be higher. Alberta is really showing all of North America how to do it.
All we need to do is get DoubleK on negotiating those inter-ties and the sky is the limit. BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan being supported by lots of wind and solar backed by BC's hydro? Unstoppable