On Feb. 29, the Alberta government is expected to lift its pause on wind and solar project approvals. For most of Wednesday, Feb. 27, wind power generation in Alberta had flatlined. Out of an installed nameplate capacity of 4,481 megawatts, total...
How long could Alberta’s wind power stay at 1 out of 4481 megawatts? Read on SaskPower Minister Dustin Duncan recently told me I watch electricity markets like some people watch fantasy football. I would agree with him, if I knew anything about fantasy football....
Where are we going? Lower! That was the trend for wind power production in Alberta on Monday, Feb. 5, as the 4,481 megawatts of nameplate wind power generation capacity fell to just three megawatts output. That’s less than 0.1 per cent, or less than 1 one-thousandth...
Alberta won the energy lottery millions of years ago. I’m not talking scratchers, but the Powerball. You know, the big American lottery that every so often is over a billion dollars? Except Alberta’s winnings are much, much larger than that. So why is it the weekend...
The day after Alberta had four days in a row “grid alerts” for its electrical system due to the utter collapse of wind and solar power, and the lack of dispatchable baseload power, Rachel Notley took credit for expanding renewables and getting rid of coal....
