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Re:B.C. introduces law to require cars, trucks sold by 2040 ... by scrooched_moose on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:04PM (#19646735)
Wind probably does pretty good up there.

Lots of mountains, but sparsely populated so they don't need to find all that many locations.

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Re:B.C. introduces law to require cars, trucks sold by 2040 ... by switchbak on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:05PM (#19647384)
Wind only really makes sense offshore/on the Western coast of the island, and in a few other limited places. They stuck a turbine on the top of Grousse mountain (a PR stunt for the Olympics), and it barely moved.

Solar can work in the interior, but isn't much use on the coast.

Hydro is the main renewable source of energy out here. It has it's issues of course, but it does provide a lot of cheap, reasonably-green energy.

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