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Coal accounted for 80 per cent of Alberta’s electricity grid in the early 2000s and it still amounted to 60 per cent just 10 years ago. When phasing out coal was just an idea being batted around, many said it couldn’t be done. This is not dissimilar to the rhetoric today around decarbonizing the grid. But Alberta’s experience phasing out coal shows environmental progress of this magnitude is possible.
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Alberta produces 2-3X more energy per capita from wind and solar than any other province, and has almost as much renewable energy storage than the rest of Canada put together.
Thats awesome, but leaves out the fact that BC and Ontario do it by Hydro Electric dams, so solar and wind is less attractive
Quebec does hydro. Ontario just calls it that, but majority comes from nuclear.
It probably wasn’t that good for propaganda to call it “Nuclear One” when they’ve privatized the crown corporation.
Ha yeah, Ontario says it is only 1/3rd actual hydro power
Manitoba too! Net exporter of hydro.
Well, I guess we all work with what we got, huh.
Battery storage, I presume. Many other provinces don’t need the storage due to the ability to vary the output from dams.