Alberta electricity prices: $1/kwh

[Guest]

Thanks for the charts chuck.
I see the first saus Brooks has a 15.1% capacity factor.
What does 15.1% capacity factor mean?
Need your expert experience to clarify that.

oh, oh, poor chucky , not again?

[Oliver88]

We should be very thankful in SK that coal and natural gas supply reliable and affordable power generation.

Just imagine the power generation to keep the AC going in all the climate alarmists houses today.

[DaneG]

A lot of the blame for high Alberta power rates is deregulation. Pool prices set each hour power trades like a commodity + transmission and distribution charges. The REA that have not sold out save on distribution costs.

[chuckChuck]

You gotta love when the "freedom" loving Albertans complain about high electricity prices in their deregulated electricity market. Would they rather have Saskatchewan's regulated electricity market where farms pay a significantly lower cost per kwh? Their heads are spinning! LOL

[Hamloc]

True the cost of building 2 systems is higher. But solar and wind produce some of the cheapest cleanest electricity and are part of the strategy to reduce emissions. Storage systems are coming. Nuclear is very expensive and SMR are not ready. CCS is also very expensive but may come down. There is no single solution to get to net zero and that is why solar and wind will play a significant role even if they are intermittent. What cheaper low carbon emissions options exist? Get use to paying more no matter what the system looks like.

Just read this article on the Financial post website: How China used cheap coal and allegedly forced labour to dominate the world’s solar market.

My thought is this does it make sense to source all your electricity generating infrastructure from what I would call a hostile foreign power? At the same time exporting energy jobs to this same foreign power and putting your own citizens out of work! Read the article Chuck!

[chuckChuck]

Who the hell said "source all your electricity generating infrastructure" from China? Wind mills are made by Siemens and Vespa to name a couple of non-chinese companies. South Korea makes alot of solar panels. There are other sources than China if you want.

So China's labour and energy policies are only a concern when it comes to building solar panels? LOL

They have become huge manufactures of many things that you and I consume, but Chinese labour and energy usage only becomes an issue when convenient!

[Hamloc]

So China's labour and energy policies are only a concern when it comes to building solar panels? LOL

They have become huge manufactures of many things that you and I consume, but Chinese labour and energy usage only becomes an issue when convenient!

I am not a fan of buying Chinese made products period. When buying bearings as an example I go out of my way to buy American or Japanese made bearings. So no in my world China’s policies are not only a problem in relation to solar panels!

[chuckChuck]

Lots of non-chinese companies moved their manufacturing to China and other cheap labour, low environmental standards countries. Are you sure you know where all your bearings and parts come from or where they were manufactured?

[furrowtickler]

Lots of non-chinese companies moved their manufacturing to China and other cheap labour, low environmental standards countries. Are you sure you know where all your bearings and parts come from or where they were manufactured?

Your a lover of the carbon tax , so how much carbon tax on the coal from BC to China ? Just curious is all

[chuckChuck]

China has lots of EVs and has installed lots of solar too. They are part of the effort to reduce emissions.

They need to do alot more but we are some of the highest per capita carbon emitters on the planet! Much higher than China.

Erin Otoole supports a carbon tax as well. So does Presto Manning. Kenney and Moe both have a carbon tax on large emitters!

They must all be commie environmentalists! LOL