More Hydro Power in Canada

Yet, although hydro power is already the backbone of Canadian electricity, there is still the potential to develop significant amounts of additional hydro in Canada. [...] More Canadians need a better More Hydro Power in Canada: Tapping Our Potential Page 1 by John Haffner and Jim Burpee July, 2017 More Hydro Power in Canada: Tapping Our Potential understanding of why hydro ought to grow into an even more important component of Canada’s energy portfolio than it is today. [...] To compare properly large-storage hydro to, say, wind or solar, the cost of storage or demand-response programs to make the intermittent resource dependable needs to be added to the cost of energy. [...] More Hydro Power in Canada: Tapping Our Potential Page 3 by John Haffner and Jim Burpee July, 2017 More Hydro Power in Canada: Tapping Our Potential 3. Include de-carbonization contribution as part of project assessments Many debates in Canada about the merits of specific proposed hydro projects are framed too narrowly. [...] Minnesota Power and Manitoba Hydro recently signed an agreement that will take effect in 2020 and enable Minnesota Power to store some of the wind power it generates in Manitoba Hydro’s hydro stations.