The average cost of electricity in Alberta is almost twice the value for BC. When doing a calculation for something like solar investment, that's a huge difference.

Production of solar panels is reasonable right now, but still limited compared to the potential demand which is why there's so much investment in new capacity. It's not that panels are unavailable, but there aren't just millions of panels laying around uninstalled either. They're rolling off the line, getting transported, and then getting installed.

The scale of "let's do this for the country" even with Canada being relatively small would end up impacting prices globally.