Phasing out coal in Alberta was supported by good policy design driven by carbon pricing and regulations with clear targets that offered necessary certainty to the industry and stakeholders
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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Thats awesome, but leaves out the fact that BC and Ontario do it by Hydro Electric dams, so solar and wind is less attractive
Manitoba too! Net exporter of hydro.
Well, I guess we all work with what we got, huh.
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