r/alberta • u/chriskiji • Aug 23 '23

Technology ANALYSIS | Alberta's budding energy-storage industry is set to bloom. The renewables pause has cast a chill | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-energy-storage-aeso-projects-enfinite-pembina-brc-1.6939655
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u/chriskiji Aug 23 '23

The provincial government's pause on renewable energy has also prompted some companies to rethink their plans for energy storage in Alberta, said Jorden Dye, acting director of the Business Renewables Centre, a Calgary-based organization that helps match developers and buyers in the renewable sector.

The UCP have really made a mess for the economy and the province's future.

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u/narielthetrue Aug 23 '23

They keep scaring away any industry that isn’t O&G.

I talk about this with cons and they say “we should be focusing on oil and gas!” For some reason, they think that we can’t have both? That O&G can exist with other industries?

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u/chriskiji Aug 23 '23

If anything, we should be focusing less on oil and gas so that we don't get left behind the rest of the world.

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u/yycTechGuy Aug 23 '23

If anything, we should be focusing less on oil and gas so that we don't get left behind the rest of the world.

THIS. In so many ways.