The number was so low, the calculator put out scientific notation when calculating the percentage of output Alberta’s 1,722 wind turbines costing many billions of dollars produced 0.39 megawatts at noon on Sunday, Dec. 1, according to data from the Alberta...
Alberta publicly puts out 3054x more data on its grid each day than SaskPower does. At least it used to. Now it’s 23,963x Alberta wind power generation fell to less than one per cent of capacity, again, the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 20. Pipeline Online...
The morning of Tuesday, Oct. 29, saw yet another utter collapse of wind power generation, but this time, it was accompanied by a collapse of solar generation as well. At 11:09 a.m., Alberta’s collective 5,340 megawatts of wind power generation capacity were...
If you really want to bore yourself, periodically check out the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) AIES Event Log, found here. It lets grid operators, and the world, know when things occur that impact the Alberta grid, like a natural gas unit tripping off, or...
Enough power for 146,000 homes, for less than the price of a Timbit When your neighbour is kind enough to offer you large amounts of free power, what do you do? Take it, of course. And that’s what SaskPower did on Wednesday. You’re not really “buying it” if the price...
