Another supper in Alberta is not being powered by wind generation. Well, 99.54 per cent not powered by wind. And by 4:53 p.m., the provincial grid operator declared the second “grid alert” this week. Cold temperatures, low wind and generation challenges prompted the...
On Tuesday night, supper time in Alberta was not lit by wind power, according to numbers posted by the Alberta Electric System Operator. That’s because at 6:18 pm., Alberta’s installed capacity of 3,466 megawatts of wind power generation was producing 24 megawatts....
Once more Texans under electrical grid alert due to low wind and high temperatures, except this time things got dicey. Real dicey (Editor’s note: this story was updated several times Wednesday night as more information became available) Despite being one of the...
EDMONTON – A series of “grid alerts” on the Alberta electrical power grid over the last year, in particular events in January and April of this year, have shaken up the Alberta government enough to move it to action. On Aug. 6, the Alberta government...
At suppertime on Sunday, Feb. 4, Alberta saw its wind power generation fall to 15 megawatts out of 4,481 megawatts, or one-third of one per cent (0.3 per cent) at 5:38 p.m. This was at the same time solar was producing zero megawatts as the sun had gone down....
