Two major natural gas-fired power plants in Alberta going offline at the same time caused the Alberta’s electrical contingency reserves to fall to zero in the late afternoon on Tuesday, June 17. According to the Alberta Electric System Operator’s (AESO) event log,...
In the same week Nova Scotia is proposing building enough wind power generation to handle 27 per cent of Canada’s electricity needs, Alberta saw next to now power come from its fleet of 45 wind farms throughout most of Wednesday, June 4. It was a windless...
REGINA, WARMLEY – A combination of factors led SaskPower to ask some of its large customers to reduce their power consumption on Wednesday, May 28. And the same day saw wind output fall in Alberta to 0.2 per cent capacity. SaskPower’s woes came on a day where...
Just a few days before a federal election which has energy as a key issue, Alberta’s wind power generation fleet flatlined, yet again. At 9:24 a.m. on Thursday, April 24, the province’s fleet of over 1700 wind turbines with a nameplate capacity totalling 5,688...
On Saturday, March 29, the 817 megawatts of wind capacity connected to the SaskPower grid produced an average of one, singular megawatt over the course of 24 hours. That’s according to SaskPower’s Where Your Power Comes From webpage. But it’s actually worse...
