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Today’s column is about having fun with numbers.

And there were plenty of figures floating around Wednesday at Premier Rachel Notley’s announcement about Alberta’s renewable power contracts.

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Three companies were selected to build new wind developments: two bidders from overseas and one — Capital Power — from Alberta.

Total investment for these wind farms is projected at around $1 billion. About 600 megawatts (MW) of renewable electricity will be added to the provincial grid.

Amid the avalanche of numbers, however, two figures really mattered: one the government was shouting from the rooftop at McDougall Centre; another it tried to avoid uttering the entire day.

The first figure is 3.7 cents per kilowatt-hour, the weighted average price of the winning bids in Alberta’s first-ever auction for renewable power contracts.

The second number is $10 million a year, the estimated annual cost of subsidies for these contracts.