371. Unpausing Renewables in Alberta FULL INTERVIEW - Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon

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I am fine with these rules. I personally think that first to grid should be based on reliability which would mean the gas plants can keep running instead of either letting them do economic withholding or having a capacity market where the rate payers are essentially paying twice for power. The renewable companies basically get to flood the grid with power without guaranteeing that they will be there when we need them. If they put in battery backups it would be a different story but they dont even need to do that. They get the reap all the profits at the expense of the rate payer. If you just sorta showed up for work when you felt like it you wouldnt have a job for long but the companies putting intermittent power on the grid do exactly that because they are "green" and if anyone says anything then they get called a climate denier or an oil and gas shill. If you look at the whole issue we had in January it was the grid operator looking at how much renewable capacity we had available so they let one of the gas plant operators take their plant down for maintenance. They didnt think it would be possible for a third of our grids capacity to put out basically no output. They were proven wrong and then people had the nerve to start blaming the gas plant operators. The renewable companies basically said "that is your problem not ours". We can not run a grid where the operators are basically having to guess when they will have power available and how much power they would have available but people are getting upset that the government is putting restrictions on that will prevent this problem from getting worse.