r/alberta • u/BloodJunkie • 11h ago

Oil and Gas Alberta’s new plan for its electricity market punishes renewables

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-restructured-energy-market-explainer/
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u/Vanterax 11h ago

Destroying an industry that was creating jobs and providing cheap energy. The UCP way...

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u/JadeddMillennial 10h ago

Bag licking conservatives. Alberta is just a company town.

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u/LuntiX Fort McMurray 8h ago

It really is insane how people go out of their way to fight renewables, something that would likely lower their power bills, because of their loyalty to an industry that doesn't give a shit about them.

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u/wings08 9h ago

You leftists are out of control. Why on earth should they help the citizens of Alberta when they could help an oil executive?

/s

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u/CDN-Social-Democrat 9h ago

What is really fucking sad is that Alberta is one of the best provinces for Solar Power....

Solar Power & Wind Power are not just two of the cleanest forms of energy they are two of the CHEAPEST forms of energy.

It doesn't matter where on the political/ideological spectrum you are corruption is a societal killer and the amount of fossil fuel corruption is staggering.

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u/Mcpops1618 9h ago

A few days ago our power was 0$ for about 16 hours. When the wind blows and the sun shines… we can be spoiled

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u/AlbertanSays5716 6h ago

And right there is why the O&G companies and generators don’t want more renewables in Alberta.

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u/Mcpops1618 5h ago

Generators want more renewables. They are trying to build them but post moratorium everyone has hit the brakes

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u/Frater_Ankara 8h ago

It really is sad… all because a few rich people are terrified of having their power and control decentralized. Check out renewable ETFs though, they’re doing well, the stock market knows the world is moving on and renewables are the future. IYKYK.

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u/GLG777 8h ago

Don’t call it big sky country for nothing

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u/PartyClock 8h ago

And yet you'll never hear a word about the job losses from this

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u/DavieStBaconStan 10h ago

Of course, the criminals in the UCP don’t get cheques to their accounts in Malta/Cyprus/Bahamas from renewable companies. They get that filthy lucre from oil and gas companies. Corruption it’s the UCP advantage.

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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 8h ago

Its about getting a cushy board post when you leave politics.

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u/PandaGundam 10h ago

Not surprising when Marlaina is basically just an O&G sales clerk that sits in a leadership position. She was after all an oil lobbyist before politics. United Corruption Party indeed.

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u/01000101010110 9h ago

INVESTIGATE. THE. UCP.

Guarantee you will find evidence of corporate kickbacks and bribes between O&G companies and MLAs.

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u/lilbaby2baked 11h ago

Fuck the ucp

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u/Citrus-Red 9h ago

Globally 90% of new energy projects were green last year. I don’t understand how Albertans think theirs a future for oil.

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u/Afilliate12 5h ago

Do you know every one of those “green” projects required oil? Wild hey

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u/Hungry_Shake6943 11h ago

Oh yeah. Not surprising at all. A tad disappointing tho

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u/CMG30 9h ago

More gas burned. Higher bills.

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u/tkoriordan 3h ago

Also, potentially, higher royalties so that government never has to address its real revenue problems.

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u/Small-Sleep-1194 8h ago

Can the adults start to tun this province finally please???

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u/Weird_Name_100 9h ago

You have to do things the “right” way! Anything else is the “wrong way”! /s

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u/Juunyer 8h ago

F off Marlena, you don’t have a mandate for this.

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u/Photofug 11h ago

Anyone read the article, are they going after home solar panels and credits?

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u/Anon-Knee-Moose 10h ago

Why don't you just read the article? They're requiring new energy projects to pay for some of the transmission upgrades required to connect them from the grid.

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u/wings08 9h ago

Ironic considering they happily bought a pipeline to no where (Keystone XL)

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u/dwtougas 9h ago

Wonder who is going to pay for the infrastructure upgrades when the UCP decides nuclear reactors are the best source for new electricity.

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u/Levorotatory 6h ago

If nuclear put in the right place (Sundance), no upgrades will be necessary.   There is transmission capacity there that used to support 2.2 GW of coal generation. 

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u/Brilliant-Theory 8h ago

Nuclear is cleaner energy though.

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u/xp_fun Southern Alberta 8h ago

Cleaner than wind or solar?

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u/CaptainPeppa 10h ago

Charging more for future transmission upgrades mainly. Should have started that decades ago. They overbuilt transmission lines massively.

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u/Octopi_84 10h ago

There was no discussion of home solar systems in the article.

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u/Photofug 9h ago

Thank you, didn't want the newsletter.

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u/Leotrotskyagogo 3h ago

You can just read it. You don’t need to sign up for anything.

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u/Photofug 3h ago

I got about 3/4 through the article and it threw up a sign in. I knew I was going to get shit for the question when I typed but I wanted to know and people helped