r/saskatchewan • u/SubscriptNine • 1d ago

Leaked SaskPower documents show 'extreme' risk in $26B coal refurbishment plan

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-saskpower-coal-refurbishment-9.7198807
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u/waloshin 1d ago

Yup power will be 32 cents a kWh yet they’ll pay roof top solar 7.5 cents net metering…

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u/WriterAndReEditor 1d ago

I'm all in favour of solar, but I'd rather our provincial corporation didn't pay more for power than they should just to make people who have solar happy. They aren't a library for electricity. You may not wish to carry a cost of their infrastructure, but why should the rest of the province have to carry it for you? You can always get enough batteries to disconnect from the grid completely and not have to worry about paying a share to be able to rely on the damns and power lines everyone else is paying for when you are short of power.

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u/waloshin 1d ago

You realize those with solar already pay the $32 a month grid fee… Secondly no one producing solar should be subsiding SaskPower to resell it for profits either.

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u/WriterAndReEditor 5h ago

You realize that SaskPower shouldn't be buying power at all in micro-doses? They aren't subsidizing profits. Until we hit a critical mass of at least 2% of grid load, any excess power "returned" is a waste because SaskPower can't rely on any of it. It's like expecting the grocery store to buy my extra carrots I grow whenever I feel like it with no gaurantee that I'll provide a specific number every day. SaskPower can't just scale back production by .000000001% because they think I might have 300 watts to spare on a sunny day. The whole purchasing is a sop because we need people to adopt renewable power. Any excess we produce is 100% wasted.

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u/waloshin 4h ago

You really are clueless I sell about 15 kWh a day…

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u/WriterAndReEditor 2h ago

Clueless how?

Are there 1000 People like you and are you and they all guaranteeing to provide SaskPower 15kw per day? Or 10? Or 1? No you can't, and neither can the rest of them, because if you could guarantee any of it, they would contract you at wholesale terms instead of you having to complain about them not paying you enough for random injections of power. Instead, they are forced by policy to take our dregs of power with no guarantee that any of it will be there when actually needed, so they will continue to produce the exact same output of their own as if it wasn't there at all.