Assignment #5: Final Data Report
Wind Power is leading Canada’s Sustainability Efforts For Canada to hit their ambitious net-zero emissions goal by 2050, Canada will need to execute on bringing online more and more renewable sources of power generation. Although Canada’s main source of electricity comes from hydro dams, which generates about 56% of the total power per year, the costs have risen enough to be a deterrent to continue building more dams. So far, Canada has deployed and captured power using ocean energy, geothermal energy, solar, wind energy and bioenergy. With Wind and Solar being the most dominant producing most of all the new renewable energy. Even though Solar and Wind have both seen a steady decrease in costs year by year from technological advancements, Wind Power has seen a much faster adoption rate. Wind turbines are now designed to last 20-25 years and benefit from the low maintenance costs and are easy to scale. The prairies being the most geographically abundant for gat...
