SaskPower is intent on building out a further 3,000 megawatts on wind and solar power, in addition to the 617 megawatts of grid-scale wind and 30 megawatts of grid scale solar already in place. That would make a total of 3,647 megawatts, if all built. So what would it...
Alberta’s last two coal units were putting out 54.9x its total wind fleet One more time, Alberta’s 3,618 megawatts of nameplate wind power generation dropped to less than 1 per cent of capacity. Twitter bot Reliable AB Energy (@ReliablyAB), reports hourly...
As Alberta’s internal electrical load creeps up again to close to record levels at supper time on Wednesday, Dec. 21, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) issued its second “grid alert” in one day, its third in 24 hours across two days, and...
For the second time in 16 hours, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) declared a “grid alert,” as that province’s grid came under threat of being overloaded. It was the fourth grid alert issued in the month of December, so far. In a tweet put...
In what is becoming a regular occurrence, a lack of wind power generation has put Alberta into an electrical “grid alert,” for the third time in December. At noon, 32 of Alberta’s 36 wind farms were producing zero power. A little over an hour later, it was worse. At...
