Solar Power is an engineering issue, not a political opinion issue
Danielle Smith is the Premier of Alberta. A guy named Derek Power (seriously) runs a solar power business and disputed Smith’s comments about solar power at a climate conference in Canada, as to whether solar power is viable as the primary power source in Alberta.
Whether this is possible or not comes down to engineering and economics. Given an infinite amount of money, anything is possible. New technologies will come online, over time, some we can not yet envision.
In a way, both parties are correct – current technology probably does not scale up quickly, at a cost effective price, to make solar power the be all solution for Alberta, which has poor winter time solar insolence. But it might in the much longer term. These are tough problems to address – but fundamentally, they are engineering problems and not solved by political opinions.
Disclosure – my own home is powered by solar PV and I drive an EV. I am a realist and do not promote one solution or another. There are good arguments to be made pro and con, and the value proposition varies on the use case and the technology available at a given point in time.
The story teller of the above CBC article has a BA in philosophy and an MA in journalism, and is bilingual in English and French.