Last week two things happened in the energy space that may seem unrelated, but they are not. I drove 4.5 hours up to Saskatoon on Jan. 28 to attend a press conference where the provincial government said it was formally starting the process to choose the...
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...
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...
For the second day in a row, wind power generation in Alberta fell to zero megawatts, out of a nameplate capacity of 5,684 megawatts. That’s according to minute-by-minute data from the Alberta Electric System Operator, or AESO. Between 12:22 and 12:44 a.m. on Jan. 3,...
In other words, one is the loneliest number, again. Well it was, until it hit zero. Wind power generation in Alberta and Saskatchewan has seen significant variations in recent days, from producing over half of their respective nameplate capacities, to next to nothing....
