As for untapped MB energy potential:
~4,500mw of Hydro: (Linked)
-1400mw Conawapa (Lower Nelson)
-1000mw Gilliam Island (Lower Nelson)
-400mw Birthday Rapids (Lower Nelson)
-500mw Bladder Rapids (Upper Nelson)
-300mw Birchtree (Burntwood)
-200mw First Rapids (Burntwood)
-600mw Other various small dams
3,000mw+ Wind:
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2500-4000mw Lake Manitoba Wind
-Offshore Lake Winnipeg? There 5x the area but it's deeper than Lake MB
-Onshore? Do we plaster farmland with wind? I'm less a fan there
15,000mw Pumped-Hydro Storage (guessing capacities)
-5,000mw Cedar Lake @ Grand Rapids
-10,000mw Lake MB @ Fairford/Dauphin River
Price them all out. Start with the lowest cost per MW to build and get shovels in the ground.
Get BiPole 4 going properly down the east side. Cut off Bipole 3 by Swan River and send that 2mw west to SK and AB where they're getting killed on carbon tax. Let's fcking go already.
And stay away from Nuclear. It's the highest LCOE. Plus MB Hydro can't even build a dam.