On March 22, Saskatchewan’s fleet of grid-scale wind power generation produced next to nothing for half the day, and zero power at all for just over an hour. SaskPower spokesperson Joel Cherry said by email on March 25, “We were at less than 10 megawatts...
Wind power generation in Saskatchewan showed incredible variability in the first half of March. Some days the wind blew, and others, it sucked. According to SaskPower’s Where Your Power Comes From web page, which displays daily 24-hour averages for each class of...
 See all those orange pins on this Google map, created by @ReliableAB? The show the locations of 45 wind farms with at total of 1,519 megawatts of nameplate capacity (grid-scale solar is purple). But a week after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced new rules for...
On Feb. 29, the Alberta government is expected to lift its pause on wind and solar project approvals. For most of Wednesday, Feb. 27, wind power generation in Alberta had flatlined. Out of an installed nameplate capacity of 4,481 megawatts, total...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico would set aside well over $1 billion to guarantee tuition-free college and sustain government spending in case its oil production bonanza fades in the transition to cleaner energy sources under an annual spending plan endorsed by the...