That might be true, BC does buy Alberta power at night, those power plants cannot be ramped up and down quickly like a hydro dam. BC Hydro buys this at night for peanuts, otherwise its dumped, this saves BC water for power when its more valuable. A symbiotic relationship that has worked to each others benefit. Alberta has announced all coal and gas plants will be gone by 2030.
The concept of solar is that it avoids the burning on non renewable fuels and that saves GHG. Since solar power can't be made at night, there are no GHG savings from Nelson's solar garden. And its unlikely BC Hydro is buying Nelson power at night anyways, so the solar garden does nothing.
Show me the data that makes solar have any value or benefit to this community.
Any excess annual power for sale from Nelson hydro comes when the lake level is up from April through August as shown in the graph below. Also the time most annual solar power is earned.
Below is a daily consumption graph for the average home, a peak around breakfast when no solar power is made, little use through the day when all solar is made, another larger peak at suppertime through bedtime, when no solar power is earned. The suggestion that most Nelson hydro extra power is made at night, to suggest solar has value is false. Midday when solar is maximum we can't use it, don't need it, another piece of misinformation. Misinformation is what this project has been about since the beginning.
Power consumption peaks at breakfast and supper into evening, when solar is worthless.
Fortunatly "BC Hydro applied to the BC Utilities Commission to no longer buy anyone's solar power. Why would they pay full retail for this worthless power and let their own clean green waterpower spill down the river with profits!
Fortis electric said it best "it will be a challenge when the public begins to understand the economics of solar power"
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