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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Anyone care to weigh in on ds calling for more NG power plants?
And who holds a microphone like that?
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The reality is we don't have a lot of choices. Hydro is limited here. Grid inter-ties and Site C can help, but I'm not sure it's enough. Wind and solar will require battery storage on the scale of 5-20 days capacity for Dec-January, plus require much larger installations to charge those batteries for dispatch at a time of year when wind and solar don't produce much. I just don't think it is possible right now(the battery alone would be a major cost, and nothing that large exists now).
Add to that the increased electricity demand with EV's and electrifying heating, and you have a situation where are choices are nuclear, coal, or gas, needed to be built in the next decade, to expand capacity 10%(roughly 1.5 Shepard energy plants). So you can see we will need at least one more.