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Category: Hydroelectricity

BC Hydro is partnering with the province to bring BC's first utility-scale battery energy storage project to Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island.
Hydroelectricity
  • Hydroelectricity
8 MIN READ

A big battery is coming to Vancouver Island. What can it actually do?

B.C.’s first utility-scale battery could strengthen the Island grid by 2030—but its duration, cost and relationship to Island Generation remain unanswered
BC Hydro CEO Charlotte Mitha speaking to GVBOT. | Matt Borck The One Group Agency | GVBOT
Hydroelectricity
  • Hydroelectricity
8 MIN READ

Homalco FN puts out welcome mat to hydroelectric dams

First Nation propose three dams all within Homalco territory
Heather Exner-Pirot, the author of Blackout, speaking last year at Get It Done BC, a Resource Works event held in Victoria.
Hydroelectricity
  • Hydroelectricity
5 MIN READ

Blackout? Canada’s transformation from a net energy exporter to importer is a crisis waiting to happen

“Canada must act now to prevent a looming electricity shortage.”
Hydroelectricity
  • Hydroelectricity
4 MIN READ

Site C has been unleashed

Four of six turbines are online as the 1,100 MW Site C dam moves toward full operation later this year.