Really no change

[shtferbrains]

Change it from farmer to custom harvester. And charge $90 an acre to cover the capital costs

You just need some government support to make that work.

Your not thinking like a progressive Liberal.

[chuckChuck]

You need to have the actual numbers for the added cost of renewable generation systems supplementing hydro, fossil and nuclear systems.

Generation costs are only one part of the total system costs. There is generation, distribution, maintenance and administration.

No doubt there are increased costs with adding renewable and low carbon generation sources to provide electricity.

But what is the cost of reducing carbon emissions from the various options? For example is carbon capture and storage cheaper than wind? Without the actual numbers you are speculating.

Sask power said that carbon capture on coal was too expensive and has chosen more wind and more gas and imports of hydro from Manitoba.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Actually, the shortest day of the year is exactly when we need to base all of generation and cost projections.
While Chuck is spewing utter nonsense about " gas, hydro, imports, cogeneration and in some cases nuclear to cover peak loads", the politicians are promising zero carbon energy sources in impossibly short periods of time. So, eliminate the gas, and cogeneration from that list. It is apparent that he doesn't get invited to the meetings anymore. They must have gotten tired of hearing someone speak LOL at the end of every serious statement.

Chucks friends at the NFU are going way outside of their mandate and blocking any potential hydro dams, specifically targeting site C in BC, so eliminate that option. He obviously doesn't get invited to the NFU meetings anymore, apparently even they get tired of being called flat earther's too.

All of the greens are against Nuclear, almost none of the governments are suggesting that as an option, so eliminate that option.

The UN is insisiting that we are all going to do this together, so that means all your nearest neighbors will be committing energy harikari at the same time, so don't plan on imports from sane neighbors such as Norway anymore.

We will be left with wind and solar. No one freezes to death on the longest sunniest day of the year, no livestock freeze or critical infrastructure is going to suffer catastrophic failures from freezing without energy on the longest day of the year.

So we need to start from the worst case, no back up sources, shortest day of the year, highest demand, and as we have noted in the past few years, the wind can be calm for days on end. And keep in mind that at the present time, there is no scalable, affordable storage option.

[sumdumguy]

A huge Lithium source happens to be in Nevada. The source of the Lithium is an old tired volcano. Just imagine Lithium for all those green batteries. While many hale the mining of Lithium as a generator of great wealth in that dessert, the environmentalists and native bands have gone on the offence to the very idea. One of the wonders of the world! (Sarcasm)