Nuclear is great in your part of Canada, but where I live in California there are several advantages to solar...
1) solar is distributed. In the past couple years, California has had massive fires caused by transmission lines. Right now, millions of people are without power because the utility can't safely deliver electricity. Distributed solar obviates the need for huge transmission lines, and is more durable in a disaster.
2) utility scale solar is cheaper than nuclear here.
3) There are large earthquakes here that make it less obvious that we should run 70% of our economy on nuclear.
1) solar is distributed. In the past couple years, California has had massive fires caused by transmission lines. Right now, millions of people are without power because the utility can't safely deliver electricity. Distributed solar obviates the need for huge transmission lines, and is more durable in a disaster.
2) utility scale solar is cheaper than nuclear here.
3) There are large earthquakes here that make it less obvious that we should run 70% of our economy on nuclear.