The Problem with a Net Zero Electric Grid

out here in Alberta is that that the Conservatives and UCP have already slashed the AB grid way back which is why we’ve been having more outages the last few years.

What will happen will be more outages in more places, especially in winter. I don’t know about others, but the prospect of a net zero grid while people freeze their asses does not sound like a sane, practical, sustained solution affecting the greatest number of Canadians. If anything, AB electric grids need to be increased and/or updated with longer, colder winters and increased population.

I imagine a cartoon with Trudeau as a self-congratulatory climate saviour on one side and frozen Westerners and folks up north on the other side asking for the lights and heat to be turned back on in the dead of winter so they can physically survive. Much as I support climate efforts, a quick-fix net zero electric grid just sounds, to me, like a major disaster waiting to happen in real-time.