Chris Gingras Q: “estimate to provide 1,500 MW of battery storage” as a quarter of what Saskatchewan needs.

A: We can buy 25,000, 60kWh battery cars, for half a billion dollars today, and they’ve capacity to back up the grid of your quarter size, for an hour. The cost is one quarter of the money spent on a redundant highway around Regina (yqrBypass), about $450 per Sask resident.

He says that’s not a detailed plan, or good enough. Geez it’s a Facebook comment, what does he expect?

You’re missing the points, Chris. It’s only $12B, and that’s buying 600,000 people or businesses an EV, greatly reducing air pollution and not reducing grid reliability, but improving it. If you don’t attach 4 wheels and a motor to each of those batteries, and have SaskPower buy in bulk, imagine how much less expensive too.

Size it up 3 times, then basically it’s only 33% more expensive than the SaskParty’s ridiculous and illegal coal plan for $26B, but going by the expected cost of batteries in 10 years, it won’t be that much more expensive than buying coal, paying carbon taxes to burn it, and keeping turbines spinning.

And don’t you think it’s sad that I can lay out a more feasible clean electrical plan than the two biggest provincial parties, in a handful of Facebook comments,  than they cobbled together with commitees and corruption after years?