[kennend3]

> and double the capacity in solar, a

you are aware that you are posting on an article about Ontario and Saskatchewan, correct?

How about you go review the tables showing how little solar energy these provinces receive in the winter?

So when we need energy to heat our homes and power our lights, our solar output is also greatly reduced?

Solar may be great further south, where it is sunny all year round, but in the north we need reliable power all year long, including our cold and dark winters.

It doesn't get cold and snow here for no reason, it is caused by the reduction in solar energy we receive.

[Schroedingersat]

So the best place in canada for solar and one of the better places. Where capacity factor in mid winter is still above 10% and cost per installed watt of output capacity during mid winter is less than the present value of the sticker cost of this nuclear project (excluding running costs and overruns and associated infrastructure and security costs) which won't even be running during the most important decade for stopping climate change? That Saskatchewan?

[bshipp]

this will be the case when we transition from natural gas for heating. as it currently stands, electrical demand--with the exception of Quebec--generally is dramatically lower in the winter than the summer.