Canada's Oil-Rich Alberta Province Halts Renewable-Energy Projects - The Wall Street Journal
Canada’s Oil-Rich Alberta Province Halts Renewable-Energy Projects - WSJ
Aug. 19, 2023 9:00 am ET
TORONTO—Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta has become the latest jurisdiction to push back against renewable-energy initiatives, declaring a seven-month moratorium on new wind and solar projects.
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Renewable energy sources — once the fuel of the future, then practical in specific, narrow applications — are increasingly economic mainstream sources of power generation. Hydropower was long the mainstay of U.S. renewable electricity generation, although wind power surpassed hydro for the first time in 2019, and solar continues its rapid growth. The continued growth of wind and solar, with their fluctuations, is tied in part to improvements in storage technology: batteries.