Hydroelectric and nuclear are out best chances of moving over to clean(er) energy. Burning stuff we dig out of the grounds is so last century technology.

Let’s get it built.

Solar as well. Panels are becoming more and more efficient. Here is an interesting idea, video is a little obnoxious, but the info is decent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU&feature=kp

Opposition will continue to grow.

Its a big job to overcome the hype of this project and deal with the facts.

This project is not needed. The Joint Revue Panel stated they could not find a bona fide case for the project. There is no shortage of power, etc; etc;

How much proof do people need???

There is no shortage of power in BC.

BC should be moving towards decentralized generation with home owners generating their own and selling excess to BC Hydro. Lots of criticism for BC Hydro for their intransigence on this front while pushing things like Site C.

IMO BC Hydro is building Site C as a subsidy for the LNG sector and not for energy cost considerations for BC residents and existing BC industry. That is why the whole process has gone on absent any proposal going before the BC Utilities Commission….

An uncle of mine is off the grid with solar energy and it works fine for him year round with battery back up and on very rare occasions a generator. The technology is here already for viable home solar generation.

Can just imagine the sound of the bowl in December when the 5 kilowatt panels are bringing in 50 watts for 6 hours.

Eagleone solar is great- I have it in a cabin and it works very well from March to September and ok for october and feb.

Germany produced 55% of their power for a day in June with Solar. Having said that they are on track to hit 5% of their total needs from solar. If you do the math, which is not technically feasible without storage, Germany would need to have solar panels in place that would provide 10 times more power than needed on slow days.

Seems inefficent. Solar and Hydro work excellent together as hydro shuts down fast when the sun comes out storing water behind the dam.

Palupo- I appreciate your fiscally conservative stance, but if we look past BC we see a huge need for clean energy now, and if we look forward 10 years (which is how long it will take before the dam is generating) what do you think the power demands will be for the province?

And please, if you could, tell me where natural gas will be at that time.

Cheers!

Working with the idea that there is a only a single solution is not going to be successful.

The best solution is going to capitalize on many solutions.

That means that if one wants to reduce their load (billings) on the centralized distribution system (known as BC Hydro), then they would install wind, photovoltaic , solar thermal solutions and even Geo-thermal, while remaining connected to the centralized system.

This would allow self-generation with the option to add capacitance (energy) to the centralized system during low demand high production times such as nice sunny work days. Then when production ability is lower, one could then draw from the centralized system.

What has to happen is the governments at all levels must create legislation that enables this, manufacturers must lower prices (which is happening as more people buy their products), and BC Hydro has to quit being such a PIA for any one that wants to do this.

The ROI will not off set costs or create any immediate saving due to the nature a retrofits. After it becomes Standard procedure for all new construction to include freely available natural energy sources such as wind, sun and geothermal, then the ROI might be there individually, and collectively we would not need to continually replace aging centralized energy production facilities.

Think about it, if every structure had a collection mechanism, how many dams, coal plants or nuclear reactors would we need?

The point is we need to get away from a social support society that depends on government and mega corps to generate and supply every thing.

your turn SM

Comment Posted by: JohnnyBelt on July 16 2014 8:13 AM
Let’s get it built.
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Yep, going to need a lot of belting on that construction job hey?

I don’t understand why people think that the cost of Natural Gas will go up, and as a result producing electricity with natural gas will not be viable.

Who the hell do you think owns all the natural gas in BC. We do. We allow the gas companies to extract it, and they pay us royalties and taxes.

There is nothing stopping the Government (or Hydro) from extracting all the gas they need for producing electricity. Surely if we can flood thousands of hectares of land, and basically screw up a whole section of the Country, we can build a few gas plants to supply us with electricity.

We could of course have private enterprise build the gas and operate the gas plants, however that means in a very short period of time we would be getting screwed once again.

Its time to quit the BS, and get rid of the Corporate Welfare Bums that cannot operate a business without getting a contract from the Government and paid for by the tax payers.

Any fool with half a brain and a butt knows that natural gas is the solution for the next 50 years and after that who knows??

When you consider that the Countries that import our natural gas, use it to generate electricity, this should be your first clue, that we can do the same.

To think otherwise is foolish.