I ' ve already pulled the trigger <| sep |> Here ' s the thing . solar power it is still in it ' s infancy . the amount of power you can get on a perfectly clear day may be enough to charge up the battery , but that ' s on a individual home level , the amount of cost that needs to go into the battery is too high if you want to build a Solar plant to run your city , as well as the footprint of even having that battery you have to store it somewhere , and resource to make it to begin with . The reason for this is the major amount of usage is at night to heat our homes and to power our lights . the amount of snow we get in the prairies means on the days it snow , we have fewer surplus of electricity , on days when there is no snow , we have to make sure that the panels are clear to get the most out of the sunlight . sure we have a great amount of wind , but the latergest wind energy farm is correct me if I ' m wrong Riviere du Moulin , QC , that gives us 350 MW of energy . even with that , it ' s 5 % of the CURRENT energy usage of Canada . also , alberta is the 3 rd largest wind market in Canada , Quebec and Ontario is 2 nd and 1 st respectively . And all that for 150 km of footprint . not the best in terms of square km for that amount of energy production . Now don ' t get me wrong , I ' m all for going to renewable energy , but let ' s face it , we are not far ahead enough to even think about deploying all these programs , let alone the cost to even start the construction of them . The Topaz Solar farm located in California is 6 km by 6 km of space to get an output of 550 MW of energy , and that is in the dessert with the most amount of sun light it can possibly get . There is more to it than just finding a nice place with sunlight and plopping down a solar farm , or wind farm . From Consistent wind to consistent sun , to a place to house all that electricity so we can use it . There has been places where they argued that wind farm loses land value because who wants to live in any area overlooking KM and KM of turbines ? Trust me when I say , it ' s not just about being the best on shore location in the world , or that we have fewer cloudy days . Though by focusing more on renewable , we can grow and revolutionize the technology .