Around 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Monday, June 27, the sun had gone down in Alberta and there was no wind power production to be had. Twitter bot account @ReliableAB reported, “At this moment 90% of Alberta’s electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind...
Alberta has 1,209 megawatts of nameplate installed solar generation capacity. And at noon on June 20, the second longest day of the year, all of that solar generation was producing half of the rated capacity. At 11:00 a.m. it was producing around 400 megawatts,...
The afternoon of June 12 saw wind power production drop to less than one per cent of its rated nameplate capacity. Windspeeds in southern Alberta, where the wind generation facilities reside, were faced with low single-digit windspeeds. Twitter bot account @ReliableAB...
Twitter/Alberta Electric System OperatorAt 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. “The AESO declared a Grid...
Friday morning, all of Alberta’s wind farms could have only charged 12 Teslas at once One of the arguments made for widespread adoption of wind and solar power generation is the idea of widespread dispersal. The argument goes like this: If the wind isn’t...
