It’s because of the vast hydro power in PQ. Also, windmills work at night.
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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoVery helpful. I’m surprised by Canada at 64 %. We have such short days in winter when we need the electricity the most that solar and wind don’t produce that much.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but the wind dies away at night.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
does the wind depend on long days?
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Partially. The wind dies down to almost nothing at night so a long night means a longer time with no wind production.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
ah. the wind is definately different near me. I sorta wonder though how constant or not they are at the elevation of the turbines. I almost always see them moving no matter the wind. I had heard they actually to much wind and they have to be turned off but I think anytime its been storming that bad I have not paid attention to them.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Interesting. I never considered the height of them. I’ll have to dig into that.
sj_zero 3 weeks ago
Hydroelectric.
I always end up looking like I hate green energy because I'm critical of wind and solar, but geothermal and hydroelectric are actually super practical.