Tuesday in Alberta – frigid cold, wind turbines produce squat, so does solar, and power demand goes through the roof

Did I forget to mention that price spiked at its maximum $1,000 per megawatt, again? And the province is shutting down its last exclusively coal units in a few weeks? The net result is Alberta, one of the most energy-rich places on the planet, just had its third ‘grid alert’ this month, asking people to reduce their power usage at supper last night.
Check it out here.

24 Replies to “Tuesday in Alberta – frigid cold, wind turbines produce squat, so does solar, and power demand goes through the roof”

    1. if there had been intelligent life in Alberta, they would have separated from the turdeau shit sandwich back in 1980.

      they didn’t. Albertans are just as docile and stupid as the rest of moronic turdeauland

      1. Exactly right.

        How does Trudeau counter the resistance? He freezes them to death; and they go to the showers willingly.

  1. And that fool Jason Kenney and his herd of equally stupid “conservative” MLA’s did nothing to fix this mess.

    Thank God he’s gone.

    But what do we hear from Danielle? More importantly, what has she done? Nothing so far, except talk. She should have issued a call for tenders for new generation facilities the day she started.

    1. Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, and Ontario have a deal to jointly fund the R&D costs for a series of small modular reactors (SMRs) wi the first to be operational by 2028. Doing this will dramatically decrease the carbon emissions of those provinces grids allowing them to meet the federal requirements in a reasonable amount of time. It’s an excellent example of inter-provincial cooperation.

      https://globalnews.ca/news/8716752/provinces-agree-nuclear-energy-plan/

      Trudeau sees this as a threat as he is relegated to the back of the bus for interprovincial affairs while the adults are talking. Inter-provincial cooperation is also a threat as the federal government feels that it is “in-charge” of the provinces and they should not be making agreements without federal consent. That is why Trudeau keeps turning the screws on the provinces, he needs them to fail so he can deride their efforts and accrue more power to himself.

      That is why I like Alberta’s new act, it basically says, “you are not the director, you are just one voice in the chorus.” If Alberta can stick to its guns, it will be able to claw back a lot of what it lost via a legally coherent framework. I know actions speak louder than words, but when you are outmanned and outgunned (literally,) you need to move the battle to where you can meet the enemy on equal terms.

  2. Man, we’re already going through a genocide to save Mother Earth.

    It’s never enough for these ‘people.’ They can’t leave us soon enough.

  3. In related news, new rules state that one fifth of all car and truck sales must be electric by 2026.

    1. Any reason those sales can’t be restricted to where the existing charging infrastructure is? (i.e. major cities?) Let the rollout coincide with the buildout. And the buildout will need to be federally funded and must follow the safety and environmental guidelines for each province..

  4. Ban evs in Alberta. Bring back coal plants.

    And I agree VOWG, Alberta is almost as bad as the rest of canada now for idiots that vote. I suspect it has a lot to do with the number of govt employees voting to keep their stay at home jobs.

  5. Totally Agree with all the above.
    Time to tear dowN the bird choppers, cut up the Solar garbage and build a few 1/2 dozen Nat Gas Co,-gens and let’s get on with LIFE.

    Enough with this utter BS of green this and climate change that.

    Maurice Strong not quite dead enough – Period.

    1. 10% of the American colonists wanted to separate from the Empire
      10% (or more) wanted to stay
      80% (more or less) blew with the wind

      the 10% who wanted independence wanted it more than those who wanted to stay

      the American War of Independence was not an antiseptic affair, it was a bloody, grueling and long ordeal. more Americans per capita died in that conflict than in any other war the USA has been involved with.

      you don’t need a majority to revolt and win, but you do need guts and tenacity. Albertans, like all good Canadians, have neither qualities in the numbers needed. not that I advocate or desire violence in any form, especially violence from the government itself, which is perpetrating a form of violence right now, by destroying the livelihoods and lives of productive people and promoting the power of government parasites

  6. In the late 70’s or early 80’s of the past century, working for an engineering company, we started the design of Genesee, the government shut it down, said that it was not needed.
    Eventually, it got built years later.

  7. All the places named ‘coal…’ in this province are going to have to rebrand. Winddale. Solarscamspar. Feezingmynutsoffvalley.

    When Ralph suggested that the eastern creeps and bums to freeze in the dark I bet he didn’t envision that one would boomerang.

  8. I am convinced that the brownouts will start in Alberta within ten years, tops. Maybe much less. And it is only then that Albertans will begin to notice what they’ve done to their grid.

    Saskatchewan’s government at least shows it is aware to some degree that they’re in trouble and have been making some moves to try & head off Ottawa shutting off their lights. Alberta’s government seems too busy making grand pronouncements while not paying attention to details.

    And by then it may be too late to do anything about it.

    Most other provinces will escape brownouts since they’re far less reliant on FF for their electricity. NS would be third on the watch list after AB & SK, though still some years away since we still burn a lot of coal here and haven’t yet swapped a critical mass of it out for windmills, though the planning is in the works.

  9. Soviet Union, circa 1925

    Chairman Castreau deliberately freezing his own people, because it might get a tiny bit warmer in 100 years time.

  10. They needed to start building out reliable power capacity 10 years ago… because it will probably take that long to get anything built now unless it’s unreliable alternative power or useless battery storage

  11. This is socialism 101.
    Starving in the midst of plenty.
    The feature of every socialism/communism utopia ever tried.

    Albertans can warm themselves with the thought;”This time we will get it right,the only reason this brilliant insight into human nature has failed for the last 300 years is that they were doing it wrong”.
    When freezing in the dark and faced with paying extortion rates for energy,while it sits in the ground right beside you..Maybe you would get a clue..
    Nah.
    “We are Can Nay Dians”.
    Wood stove and ammunition..The future.

  12. How come there is no mention of this failed NDP plan in the press? Or the cynical money grab by various utilities to get government money for the ‘required’ infrastrucure change over? Plus the mandatory price increases,of course.

    1. “How come there is no mention of this failed NDP plan in the press?”

      Ummm…’cause they all polish lefty dick?

  13. Simple solution only pay intermittent power production (wind, solar) if they have some type of ability to produce constant power. This could be battery backup, pumped water to produce hydro power, or natural gas that can be ramped up quickly.

  14. I have an idea. The AB government should subsidize solar panels and small wind turbines
    for personal use. The catch is you can’t connect to the grid. The greentards will all apply. Free money right?
    Then in -35c winter they will all have no power and electricity and there will be more for me and you(the friends of coal).

  15. I live in Ontario, the instant I get any kind of power grid alert I will connect and turn on every electrical device in my house.

    Just like I go to the emergency room for head aches and random, unspecified symptoms.

    Vote for stupid things? I will do my best to break the system,

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