REGINA – Saskatchewan is facing a curious and perhaps perplexing dilemma. In addition to oil and gas, it is now seeing development of helium and soon lithium production, too. And in one area near Torquay, geothermal power production is also in...
The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) declared its third grid alert in three days as frigid temperatures continued to blanket the province on Jan. 14, driving up electrical demand while reducing available renewable power supply. The “grid alert” was...
Second evening in a row Alberta sees “grid alert” issued, but this time, it was a much closer-run thing Alberta’s electrical grid was in such peril of falling into rotating blackouts on Saturday night, the provincial government urged people to even turn off...
Wind craters, the sun went down and two thermal plants were offline during extremely cold evening Despite having more combined coal, oil and gas reserves than almost any other jurisdiction on the planet, the province of Alberta was, once again, in an energy...
 On Dec. 26, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) reported a pool price of $0 per megawatt-hour for six hours. The Alberta electrical market is an open market, administered by the AESO, with private companies providing power. This is in sharp contrast to...
Saskatoon-based electrical engineer Brahm Neufeld keeps a sharp eye on all the publicly released data on the province’s electrical grid, as published by SaskPower. While that data is orders of magnitude less detailed than the Alberta Electric System...
