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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
We could - but its not always simple.
Newfoundland is a prime example - they have been getting hosed by Quebec taking profits from power generated in Labrador at Churchill falls forever. And then they built another station at Muskrat falls that was a debacle and cost double what was expected.
A lot of the locations where hydro can be best generated are remote as well - so that adds complexity with transmission to the places where the power is used and also indigenous lands.
I still contend that a cross-provincial/federal power plan is the way to go (and include the US with it). You've got a giant country/continent and odds are somewhere in the country is going to have an excess of generation at almost all times. If you take away restrictions then you have to worry less about - Manitoba solar generation decilines wildly in January or whatever local generation issues are.
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We're not really a nation that comes together for our own benefit and causes though so there would opposition to any sort of national electricity sharing scheme. We haven't been able to establish oil movements and we won't succeed at electricity. Quebec is much more interested in selling their clean hydro electricity to the US NE than to Ontario and BC to the Pacific NW.