Renewable resources such as wind and solar will provide enough baseload electricity to meet the needs of society in the near future, said a longtime energy conservation advocate. Roger Peters, national secretary to the board of the Canadian Renewable Energy Alliance, said new technology to harness the wind and sun will make reliance on renewable resources feasible by possibly 2020-30 and certainly by 2050. ‘In the debate over alternatives, renewable energy tends to get second shrift with the assumption that it can not provide the basic energy requirements we need, particularly on the power side, because the amount is too small, there isn’t enough power … because it’s too variable,’ Peters told the editorial board of the StarPhoenix on Tuesday. Peters said that assumption is unfair. As seen in other countries, renewable energy can compete on reliability, cost and other aspects against carbon capture and nuclear power. ‘In terms of the amount of renewable energy, a lot more renewable energy falls on the Earth than we could ever use — even commercially collect,’ said Peters. Renewable energy equals roughly 100 times the Earth’s annual consumption of electricity, he said. Saskatchewan is blessed with one of […]