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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Wow that is some expensive electricity. Are the transmission lines made of gold? I had always assumed they were a benificiary of cheap coal like AB...
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From my research, their problem comes from not properly replacing their aging coal fleet and now leaving very little reserve margin, renewable energy certificates, and legislation making it hard to find new NG sources even as they export a lot of existing production.
Australia with roughly 6x the population of Alberta only has about 3x as much electricity generation resources, meaning that it gets into trouble during a hot summer workday or a windless winter workday.