SaskWind, a Saskatchewan, Canada-based wind energy advocacy group, is at odds with the national government, which it says has hidden the effect on electric costs of its Boundary Dan Unit 3 carbon capture and storage project. Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office released a report in April outlining the cost of electricity from the CCS project. “In short: the report, despite leaving out some major costs and also making some generous assumptions on future revenues, found that CCS doubles the cost of electricity. Nonetheless, that result was buried and the report bizarrely concluded that CCS ‘holds great potential,’” according to a Friday release from SaskWind.
The group has responded to the report in a letter to the Parliamentary Budget Office stating that “[i]t is not clear why the report’s conclusions do not even mention wind despite its enormous potential. Numerous statements about the limits of wind due to baseload/grid stability/backup have no basis in fact or study.”
