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Blake Shaffer

Blake Shaffer

Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary researching electricity markets, climate policy, and electrification.

Sep 10, 2026

27:35
So help me to understand why transmission continues to remain the sticking point.
27:40
Sure.
27:41
Let me start with where you just left, though, on non-wires solutions, which perfectly correct what you just said.
27:48
Those will be increasingly useful because we've now got this situation where we're building a lot of solar in the south and really southeast part of our province where there wasn't as much generation before.
27:59
And so if you're going to build transmission to meet the peak of solar, say it's a 200 megawatt solar farm, Jurassic, and that line's only going to get used 20% of the time, if that was the only thing there, that's clearly going to be an expensive proposition to add it on.
28:13
Now, obviously, you're going to have other assets, so you're going to try to increase the utilization rate of that transmission line.
28:19
But if you can co-locate storage, what that does is not just about smoothing the generation of solar into the evening.

15 MINS LATER

43:54
Oh, great,

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