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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
The premier of BC has come out and said nuclear energy is a no-go in BC. People are getting far less tolerant of the downsides of large hydro projects.
Why isn't Alberta putting up a bunch of nuke plants in the swaths of barren wasteland we have and throwing some transmission lines across the border?
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Generation type aside (nukes or whatever) the cost building those transmission lines is enormous. When possible it makes sense to build the generation source near the market it is intended to serve. Not that long ago Alberta was going to build a new coal fired plan at Wabamun, but Calgary was the primary market. The cost to build a new transmission line was in the billions IIRC so that got shut down pretty quick.
Sometimes we do not always shave a choice of where to build generation capacity but in the case of nuclear it probably makes sense to build it near the areas it is intended to serve. From a cost perspective.