[thisislife2]

How viable is Solar in Canada given its weather? (I am ignorant about it and only know that it's really cold and cloudy most of the time).

[cmrdporcupine]

Alberta is one of the best locales for solar on the continent -- it's sunny most of the year -- and had an exploding renewables sector.

Until the far right O&G lobbyist provincial government kneecapped the sector.

[_whiteCaps_]

Cold is fine - solar panels perform better the lower the temperature.

That's what makes Calgary ideal for solar.

[sleepyguy]

A city like Calgary gets 233 days of sunny days a year. All across the prairies there is plenty of days filled with sun. British Columbia would probably not be great (like Seattle) but they could probably generate wind and hydro.

[MegaDeKay]

Its not so much the days but the hours. Days start getting pretty short in winter. The sun also doesn't get as high in the sky so the efficiency of a fixed panel drops further.

[acchow]

Calgary is quite sunny at 2400 hrs/year.

But not nearly as much as Vegas (3800) or LA (3250) or SF (2950).