Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me day after day after day….? Alberta’s wind power flatlines again this week, hitting 1 megawatt out of a capacity of 4748.
Watch for yourself – I’ve been watching for the past hour as wind has stayed in the single digits. And Alberta’s about 500 megawatts short of record demand. I wonder if they’re be another grid alert tonight?
Edmonton Sun columnist Lorne Gunter quoted the Pipeline Online story regarding wind’s failure in Alberta on July 16 in his July 19 column.
So what if millions of dollars of bird blenders are sitting idle; this lack of wind has really helped my golf game!
Nice thin air, body stretching like a rubber band, probably getting some great yardage with the driver!
Chicken little politics.. People need to die or spend enough time in the dark to get really really pissed off..
People have died and are dying from the covid vaxxes, did they get po’d?
Can you smart people tell us how much our daily price of electricity is going to on a day like this when it’s already 33 degrees and we are maxed out on nat gas and solar generation?
I am also wondering how much power those last two coal plants were producing and whether they were producing more electricity or less than after changing to gas? What did it cost to produce with coal compared to gas?
The regulated electricity rate in Alberta right now is between 27 cents and 28 cents/kWh.
In Ontario now, the peak rate of electricity is approximately 15 cents/kWh. The mid-peak rate is approximately 10 cents/kWh.
Between them, Ontaro and Alberta accounted for 2/3rds of Canada’s steam coal electricity production. Both have now eliminated coal – Ontario by increased nuclear power, Alberta by increased burning of natural gas.
Looking back, you would think that SOMEONE would have actually thought to look at more than just “average” daily wind speeds, or even average windspeed vs. time of day. You would think that they might just look at how often the wind was “unusable” (either too little or too much, or other weather factors like, say, sleet). But I guess those “real” numbers wouldn’t help to sell a project that would pull in many millions of government subsidies and enrich the project planners.
Someone did – the pimps who promote wind. The scam is very simple: if there’s too much wind power, the grid has to buy it all regardless of system demand. If there’s not enough, well, that’s too bad. You have to burn more gas at peak rates.
Welcome to the fraud called “take and pay contracts.”
Danielle Smith interview with Jordan Peterson. She’s very well spoken.
https://youtu.be/5NVMYstzpI0?si=szP8C1RvW27dzouL
I’ll be posting that this weekend. It’s pretty impressive.
Do not trust a word that comes out of that woman’s mouth. Every single syllable needs to be verified.
They need to put the windmills in Strathmore, AB. Freakin’ high, hot wind day after blessed day.
Thank you for that information.
Even though it just depresses me further
Hey, look! Saskatchewan is getting more…some days. Because who doesn’t need more prairie pinwheels?
https://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/806651-enbridge-first-nations-and-metis-partners-advance-200-megawatt-wind-energy
I’ve been dragging my feet writing the story. It’ll be a big one. I was at the open house. First time I saw a lynching. Did not go well for Enbridge.