
Blake Shaffer
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary researching electricity markets, climate policy, and electrification.
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Sep 10, 2026
(Replay) Is Canada's Electrification Bet Still Current? | With Blake Shaffer
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Ed WhittinghamHOST
So help me to understand why transmission continues to remain the sticking point.

Blake ShafferGUEST
Let me start with where you just left, though, on non-wires solutions, which perfectly correct what you just said.

Blake ShafferGUEST
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.

Blake ShafferGUEST
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.

Blake ShafferGUEST
Now, obviously, you're going to have other assets, so you're going to try to increase the utilization rate of that transmission line.

Blake ShafferGUEST
But if you can co-locate storage, what that does is not just about smoothing the generation of solar into the evening.
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