Testing the Power System
From: Charging Ahead
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This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen energy. It examines Hydro-Quebec’s first pilot project using alternative energies conducted using the off-grid system of Quaqtaq. It then looks at how they are using the knowledge gained from this project to install the country’s first microgrid in Lac-Megantic, which has had to be rebuilt almost entirely due to the tragedy that occurred in 2013. It also touches on the issue of the "duck-curve" and variability in generation.
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Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow have earned a reputation as journalists, writers and public speakers in a wide range of disciplines in both English and French. They have written more than 2000 articles, features and columns and some 15 books. Together or individually they have written in for publications such as McLean’s, Canadian Business, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, L’Actualité, Le Devoir and Québec Science.
Julie Barlow
Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow have earned a reputation as journalists, writers and public speakers in a wide range of disciplines in both English and French. They have written more than 2000 articles, features and columns and some 15 books. Together or individually they have written in for publications such as McLean’s, Canadian Business, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, L’Actualité, Le Devoir and Québec Science.
