Posted May 29, 2023, 4:47 PM
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Originally Posted by casper
I have looked at that a few times and each time there area a few things that are striking:
- Alberta is almost always brining in around 300 MW from BC.
- Wind and Solar are consistently underperforming well below their name plate capacity factor.
- Alberta has no shortage of Natural Gas, and Hydro capacity available that it could dispatch but instead it is burning coal. Clearly the utility operator has no commitment to reduce greenhouse gases when it has a choice. I can understand using coal as a last resort, but its the first choice. Since it is this weird "free market" that means the carbon tax is still to low to drive that decision in the correct direction.
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You are wrong.
https://www.alberta.ca/climate-coal-electricity.aspx
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In 2015 the government announced the elimination of emissions from coal power generation, to occur by 2030.
Alberta’s will be fully transitioned from coal-powered electricity by the end of 2023
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