Electric vehicles, net-zero LNG plants will take far more hydro power than the province is currently capable of generating, report cautions.
The B.C. government has set some lofty goals when it comes to fighting climate change, but it is far from clear if at least two of them can be realistically attained.
A provocative new paper published this past weekend by former senior civil servant Richard McCandless examines this very question, and the government likely won’t enjoy his conclusions. “Without the generation of much more hydroelectricity, or other forms of clean power, the equation does not add up,” McCandless wrote. “Either the new LNG projects are stillborn, or they use natural gas to condense the product and compromise the government’s net zero objective.”
The B.C. government’s clean-energy plan requires that 90 per cent of all new light vehicles sold in B.C. must be zero emission vehicles by 2030. BC Hydro estimates by that time there will be 350,000 such vehicles on B.C. roads, consuming about 1050 GWh annually.
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