Paper: CIGRE Canada 2018 Paper W2-01

16 October 2018

The paper can be downloaded from:

http://www.electranix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CIGRE2018-Calgary-PaperW2-01.pdf

"How do we develop our electric power systems to meet the rapidly changing conditions that can disrupt the way forward? The electric power system has seen more changes in the past five years than in the 100 years preceding. There are low costs of variable generation and storage, the need to reduce thermal generation, the uneconomical cost of new large hydroelectric generating stations, the evolution of distributed energy resources (also known as microgrids) and the market systems that must be put in place to meet these changes. In addition, there is the evolving electricity mobility market and its offshoot of fuel cell mobility with hydrogen for heavy transportation.

A Western Canada grid is a necessary way forward to meet the challenges the we are experienceing today and which are more essential as we move into the future.

The way forward is not the way we have always done it in the past. This paper presents a possible direction for the future. But it is becoming impossible to predict the future. Instead, the best way to predict the future is to create it. Ultimately the lowest cost and most reliable electricity for the “New Energy” is required. With this as the objective, we move forward step by step creating an energy future that takes into account the reality of the developing circumstances around us, building our future society and its economic strength.