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Originally Posted by Acey
Thanks! That's what I would have figured, given how long ago Quebec and BC's big hydro projects started. We would have got it going long ago if it was feasible.
Not sure. I was just wondering how and if Alberta plans to replace natural gas as our primary method of energy generation. Obviously wind and solar are not available 100% time, so the bulk of our power for the duration of those times will have to come from somewhere if gas were to be absent in the future.
Every Albertan, even when we're not in any kind of energy crisis, should be taking reasonable measures to reduce their personal energy consumption, this is an incredibly obvious point that does not need to be codified with details about laundry. However, said measures will simply not reduce Alberta's total energy consumption by the massive 80% required to negate our reliance on gas, so we'll need something else.  |
Acey, to answer your question about hydro, Alberta has quite a bit of smaller projects. Look at Transalta’s facilities. My buddy runs them. The issue with hydro is it takes a long time to get up and running and it’s big dollars for projects that are large enough to replace natural gas completely.