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Thanks for that link. Just got back from Ontario, I'm really surprised that wind generation is so low, they have a lot of wind turbines in south western Ontario. On my hour long drive to the beach I could almost always see one. I saw lots of solar as well.

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Yeah, southern Ontario is super flat and mostly farmland. It's a great place for wind to set up. Solar as well, but solar takes up so much land that would be better used as farmland.

Unfortunately, a lot of the local communities consider the wind turbines eyesores and the current Premier is against them for that reason.

there are too many wind turbines concentrated in a small area in Chatham-Kent. I agree with the community’s sentiment though i am in the pro-renewable energy camp. They look horrible because there are too many of them.

Here's a Google street view of a wind farm in Chatham-Kent:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.2920464,-82.2696581,3a,75y,14...

Personally, I find the overhead power lines to be far uglier. The wind turbines look cool, but are barely visible from the road.

> solar takes up so much land that would be better used as farmland.

Agrivoltaics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics

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