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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Longer distances require more infrastructure and money, and have more voltage loss (especially with BC's size and terrain) - that's part of why decentralized smart grids and battery farms haven't taken off like environmentalists want them to. The recent brain fart about piping water from here all the way down to SoCal to fight drought comes to mind.
Or we could use it to take pressure off Victoria and Nanaimo's baseload - for that higher price, you're getting 396 MW compared to Meikle's 185.
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Without looking it up, what percentage of electricity in BC do you think is lost due to transmission losses?
Just drop it, if anything if we can build solar farms or wind farms closer to Vancouver than the big hydroelectric dams are that just means that the transmission losses will be lower for the system as a whole. Again I think you have this mental model that wind and solar combined with hydroelectricity means "sending" electricity from the solar and wind farms "to" the hydroelectric dams, when that's really not how it works at all. Electricity in the electrical grid does not know or care about where sources or sinks are, it only feels current and voltage flowing from sources to sinks.
Also I did a little reading into the NaiKun project and it seems to be dead in the water (so to speak.) Offshore wind isn't really that economically viable, and on top of that it's politically unpopular.
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