EDMONTON – On Nov. 27, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith invoked her province’s Sovereignty Act, essentially to tell the federal government where to go and how to get there when it comes to generating electrical power. The Liberal federal government is...
When the sun is highest in the sky, solar power generation is supposed to be at its peak. That’s the idea, anyway. Reality is sometimes different, as at noon on Thursday, Nov. 23, solar power generation in Alberta was producing just 10 per cent of its nameplate...
While most Albertans were in bed or brushing their teeth on the way to bed, Alberta’s newly expanded wind and solar power generation again dropped to next to nothing. At 10:17 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3, Alberta’s now 5,523 megawatts of grid-scale wind and solar power...
13 of 38 wind farms produce 1 megawatt, or less (as in zero) for 24 hours Alberta saw another day of poor wind power production, with 10 hours during the day where the 3,853 megawatts of wind was producing less than 100 megawatts. X bot account @ReliableAB posts...
Just because the sun comes up in the morning, it does not mean its going to produce much in the way of usable solar power. Winter weather blew through Alberta on Monday, Oct. 23, and with it came increased need for power, but decreased capacity to produce it –...
