This question is basically the same as (Q28) above. The answer is “No”, for at least two reasons. First, wind energy is intermittent, so it needs to be married to dispatchable power sources such as HYDRO (water) or biogas. Norway uses hydro power to complement wind generation with great success: we can do the same with our vast hydro sources (eg: Niagara Falls, Quebec, Manitoba, and more). Dispatchable power sources can be turned on/off in milliseconds, so that users will never experience a power shortage or overage.

Second, natural GAS is just one form of dispatchable power, and just one form of gas supply. Biogas is another that is 98% the same as natural gas, and is much more preferable environmentally. Hydro power is another (and one that we have a lot of), and so is stored power, WHETHER stored in capacitor banks, batteries, waterpumped into reservoirs, or any other method of storing electrical energy for FUTURE use.

Wind can’t provide a full grid worth of electrical power on its own, but wind makes a very reliable supply that performs predictably with MINIMAL maintenance, and its intermittency is easily managed by complimenting it with other dispatchable sources. Ontario has sufficient dispatchable supply to accommodate a relatively large mix of wind energy already, which far exceeds the amount of wind energy harvesting currently planned for installation here.

This question is basically the same as (Q28) above. The answer is “No”, for at least two reasons. First, wind energy is intermittent, so it needs to be married to dispatchable power sources such as hydro (water) or biogas. Norway uses hydro power to complement wind generation with great success: we can do the same with our vast hydro sources (eg: Niagara Falls, Quebec, Manitoba, and more). Dispatchable power sources can be turned on/off in milliseconds, so that users will never experience a power shortage or overage.

Second, natural gas is just one form of dispatchable power, and just one form of gas supply. Biogas is another that is 98% the same as natural gas, and is much more preferable environmentally. Hydro power is another (and one that we have a lot of), and so is stored power, whether stored in capacitor banks, batteries, waterpumped into reservoirs, or any other method of storing electrical energy for future use.

Wind can’t provide a full grid worth of electrical power on its own, but wind makes a very reliable supply that performs predictably with minimal maintenance, and its intermittency is easily managed by complimenting it with other dispatchable sources. Ontario has sufficient dispatchable supply to accommodate a relatively large mix of wind energy already, which far exceeds the amount of wind energy harvesting currently planned for installation here.