SASKATOON – The New Democrats are taking aim at recently announced rate hikes for SaskPower, with Leader of the Opposition Carla Beck and Shadow Minister for Economy and Jobs and SaskPower Critic Aleana Young holding a press conference in Saskatoon on Jan. 13...
Alberta graciously provides its neighbours with free power, again, as wind generation sees high output Some days, the wind does indeed blow hard, and grid-scale wind power generation hits some of its higher numbers. That happened in Saskatchewan on Jan. 7 and again on...
I didn’t realize ice melter salt needed a padding of air like potato chips in a bag. After all, it’s salt. So you should be able to pack it right full, devoid of air, right? After all, that’s what they do when you buy it in bags. But maybe not, at least when you buy...
It turns out that while Alberta had two days where grid-scale wind power generation output fell to zero for minutes, in Saskatchewan, it was for hours. Seventeen hours, in total. As Pipeline Online previously reported, on Jan. 2, Alberta’s fleet of 50 wind farms...
On Jan. 2, SaskPower announced a planned rate hike of 3.9 per cent this February, and another hike of the same value next February. The NDP criticized the move, with NDP Leader Carla Beck saying in an emailed statement on Jan. 2, “Now, they’re going to face...
