EDMONTON – For seven hours on Sept. 21-22, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) reported a pool price of zero dollars per megawatt. This odd behaviour of the market is not a new thing, however. It also happened in August, and happens from time to...
The Alberta Electric System Operator’s minute-by-minute reporting of the Alberta electrical grid showed that, once again, Alberta’s wind power generation output has fallen below 1 per cent capacity. X account @ReliableAB provides hourly logs of the data....
EDMONTON – A series of “grid alerts” on the Alberta electrical power grid over the last year, in particular events in January and April of this year, have shaken up the Alberta government enough to move it to action. On Aug. 6, the Alberta government...
At 11:38 a.m. on Tuesday, July 16, Alberta’s electrical grid saw wind power production fall to zero out of a maximum capacity of 4,748 megawatts. And it pretty much did the same thing, around the same time, on Friday, July 19. X account @ReliableAB, which...
Alberta’s fleet of 1,568 wind turbines across 45 wind farms, and costing many billions of dollars, produced zero power at 11:38 a.m. on Tuesday, July 16. That’s according to Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) data, logged hourly by X account...
