Last week, Saskatchewan had a remarkable string of days with wind power output hitting likely its highest numbers to date. And this Monday, Feb. 3, wind power generation in Alberta flatlined to 0.05 per cent output. Such are the vagaries of weather-dependent wind...
Yet again on Jan. 5, wind power in Alberta flatlined, with just 27 megawatts being produced out of a maximum capacity of 5,688 megawatts. That was at 11:53 a.m., according to minute-by-minute data published by the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO, which can be...
Wind and solar power production across Alberta proved to be an abject failure on both counts mid-day on Thursday, Jan. 2. Actually, that might be putting too fine a point on it, as both showed abysmal power production numbers throughout entire day. At 1:04 p.m., when...
Santa was so generous this year, he gave Albertans enough wind power to have zero dollar pool pricing for all Albertans for several hours on Christmas Day, and a hell of a deal on Boxing Day, too. For the first seven hours of Christmas Day, starting at midnight, the...
Once again this past weekend, from Dec. 14 to 15, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) pool price bottomed out at zero dollars per megawatt-hour for a total of 12 hours, according to data publicly available from the AESO. This came in two periods, with...
