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Originally Posted by Whynotnow
There was some great discussion on the moratorium here, I know frequitude was a supporter thinking it was needed to deal with grid issues. I need to check all the details but I’m thinking this didn’t get dealt with. It sure seems like this was the biggest way they could figure out to basically ice the entire industry for philosophical reasons and thumb their nose at the Feds. Incredible, I wish I was surprised.
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The grid issues would exist with or without today's announcement, they are a separate operational issue that is being worked on as we speak. There are jurisdictions with much higher penetration of inverter based resources that figured these problems out and and Alberta will too.
If the maps that were tweeted out are an accurate representation of the 35km buffer zone, wind is all but dead.
You may see solar farms continue but the footprint required is much larger than an equivalent amount of wind generators with a lower capacity factor.