Natural Resources committee  For a minute I'll build on something Mr. Coupland said. When you have your renewable resources, as we do in Alberta, as most economically coming from wind and solar, and you have to deal with the variability but you want more energy from renewable electricity, the low-capacity fa

Natural Resources committee  The R and D question, I think, is interesting in the sense that there is a lot of R and D in smart grid and new technologies and investing in more efficient forms of generation from renewables across the world. Certainly Canada could have a role to play in that space. However, i

Natural Resources committee  The challenge of phasing out coal in Alberta is, I think, a little bit harder than Ontario's challenge. Ontario had more coal capacity to phase out, but it was a smaller percentage of their overall generation portfolio. In Alberta we are dealing with three private companies that

Natural Resources committee  Again, in the context of provincial jurisdiction, I think the federal government can play a role in encouraging provinces to establish goals and objectives that are common, and in addition, as is being considered, establish through federal funding new or enhanced capacity that wo

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, honourable members of the committee. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss Alberta's electricity interconnections or interties, as I will refer to them, and to provide context from an Alberta Electric System Operator point of view. I'll provide a