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Originally Posted by flamingchina
So, the AUC did study in 2010, that showed that Alberta has 42-52 TWH of total hydro capacity on our river basins.
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Thanks a lot for the info. I'm usually pretty good at Googling but somehow didn't find that first article.
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Canadian Hydro Association estimates that Alberta still has more than 11,500 MW of remaining economic hydro potential including both reservoir and run-of-the-river projects.
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That figure is far more than I thought, and also is coincidentally quite close to our current usage of 11,000. Yes, I do realize that harnessing all of that power would be massively expensive, environmentally destructive, equally silly to put all our eggs in the hydro basket, etc... but it is interesting to see it quanitifed.