richschlosser,

I am not claiming that wind and solar energy will meet all of our energy needs now or in the near future. I'm confident that fossil fuels will be used as long as I am around. However, when it comes to the generation of electricity, renewables are now, in some locations, the cheapest and most environmentally attractive option. Clearly solar will not works as well in Canada as in the Atacama desert. However, even in the oil and gas rich Persian Gulf solar is now the cheapest way to generate electricity and this was not the case before 2016. In the UAE, Saudi Arabia and so on solar is being rolled out to power air conditioning water desalination and so on. China reached peak coal in 2014 and is increasing the % of electrical power generated by renewables every year. The world is changing, too quickly for some and too slowly for others.

I appreciate your points.. I am following Sask Power's efforts with the Boundary Dam project closely.