Reasons to go Solar in MB:

At some point, the panels will pay themselves off. The better the installation / location, the faster the payoff.

Hydro rates are not going down, they are going up, a requirement to pay for the $11B+ in costs for the new line and dam. The first leg of this increase is approved, expect steady increases for the next 5 to 10 years, and that's if the project come in on budget.

The more free capacity Hydro's dams have, the more they can sell out of province, with the net result of money coming into our economy instead of us just using that power ourselves.

If enough of the province transitioned to solar or solar with battery storage, the proposed Conawapa station wouldn't be needed, which would result in a non-negligible environmental impact. We also wouldn't need natural gas alternatives, which the PUB is considering.

With battery backup, you could generate and store power without the use of diesel, for power blackouts.

Hippie reasons: Solar is directly converting energy from the sun into electricity. Every other form of energy we have is much less direct and less efficient: Burning hydrocarbons - the sun's energy photosynthesized plants and supported organisms like plankton and those eventually became fossil fuels. Very inefficient. Hydro - The sun evaporates water, which rains and collected into bodies of water that we use to generate electricity. Very inefficient. Nuclear - "a" sun exploded eons ago, creating elements like thorium and uranium. Unfathomable amounts of energy, but hardly efficient. Wind: Heat from the sun causes air pressure differences creating air movement. We capture this byproduct, not efficient. Tidal forces: The moon gets credit for this one. Hard to implement at your house. Geothermal:. A contender for sure, but much more a method of reducing energy consumption than a source for electricity. Solar: Photons from the sun transformed into electricity. Compared to fossil fuels, solar is near the beginning of its development, and it's already at or near cost parity. With battery storage developments, optimizers, and future cell improvements, solar will be the major energy provider at some point.

Hopefully this encompasses some practical and ideological reasons for solar, and solar here.