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Vision  Imagine a Canada with plentiful renewable energy
Renewable Energy: This is where we stand now…  Source: Equinox
Summit: Energy 2030 (PDF) P. 55  Renewable energy sources offer
a great potential  for producing energy on a large scale with
low greenhouse gas  emissions. The resource adequacy of
renewables is generally not an issue, although some parts of the
world have more geographical limitations than others. Even when
practical  limitations are factored in, the remaining resource
base remains enormous.  The challenges are how to capture these
dilute, low energy-density,  intermittent, variable and
geographically dispersed energy resources where  they are needed
and when they are needed, at reasonable cost.  The variable and
intermittent nature of renewable sources such as solar  power or
wind means that they are currently only partially dispatchable
 – making it diffic