Electrical grid alert for Alberta issued Wednesday afternoon due to low wind, high temps and an outage
At 3:49 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7, the Alberta Electric System Operator declared a “grid alert,” asking people in that province to reduce their power consumption. That grid alert was lifted at 9:50 p.m.
Editor’s note: This, folks, is the true meaning of “energy transition” – entire provinces in danger of rolling blackouts due to over reliance on “renewable” wind and solar power.
Shell’s clean energy campaign is misleading, UK advertising watchdog says
LONDON (AP) — A marketing campaign by oil major Shell has been banned by the U.K.’s advertising watchdog Wednesday for implying a big proportion of its business was in low carbon energy even though fossil fuels make up the “vast majority” of its operations.
Irving Oil reviewing strategic options including sale
Irving Oil said Wednesday that a strategic review of the company is underway and that it is looking at a series of options about its future, including a possible sale of the business.
Wind power collapses across the central US, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba at the same time Wednesday morning
When you add it all up, all the major wind power production areas in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, eastern Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, western Iowa, western Missouri, northern Arkansas, Oklahoma, eastern New Mexico and the Texas panhandle had next to no wind power production at the very same time.
Flooding shuts down major coal power station, leaving SaskPower scrambling to backfill its output and shed load internally
Heavy rains in the Coronach area Friday night have resulted in the shutdown of the coal-fired Poplar River Power Station, just when high temperatures are putting pressure on SaskPower’s grid to keep everyone’s air conditioning running. The result is a 582 megawatt coal-fired power station went offline, and SaskPower is scrambling to meet demand. One of the things it is doing is internal “load shedding,” reducing power consumption where it can, so that other customers have the power they need.
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