Does your wind farm have performance anxiety? At 8:30 a.m., Feb. 7, 44 out of 45 wind farms in Alberta could not perform. You are not alone. But there is a solution. Just two gensets like the one seen here could have matched the output of the entire wind...
Where are we going? Lower! That was the trend for wind power production in Alberta on Monday, Feb. 5, as the 4,481 megawatts of nameplate wind power generation capacity fell to just three megawatts output. That’s less than 0.1 per cent, or less than 1 one-thousandth...
At suppertime on Sunday, Feb. 4, Alberta saw its wind power generation fall to 15 megawatts out of 4,481 megawatts, or one-third of one per cent (0.3 per cent) at 5:38 p.m. This was at the same time solar was producing zero megawatts as the sun had gone down....
Second evening in a row Alberta sees “grid alert” issued, but this time, it was a much closer-run thing Alberta’s electrical grid was in such peril of falling into rotating blackouts on Saturday night, the provincial government urged people to even turn off...
Wind craters, the sun went down and two thermal plants were offline during extremely cold evening Despite having more combined coal, oil and gas reserves than almost any other jurisdiction on the planet, the province of Alberta was, once again, in an energy...