13 Replies to “Cold means less wind, more power demand in Sask”

  1. Brian:

    You recall that the Grinch who stole Christmas was green, right?

    “completely curtailing emissions at the beginning of the century would have averted a temperature increase of a mere 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit – an amount below our ability to measure and barely distinguishable from zero. To add insult to injury,the cost of such an effort is estimated to be $153 trillion, which is a lot of stocking stuffers.”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/21/dont-let-green-grinch-absurdities-steal-christmas/

  2. This is the situation in the USA just with basic infrastructure projects https://www.utilitydive.com/news/distribution-transformer-shortage-appa-casten/639059/

    So how is it going for all the reworking of the grid to accommodate all the green energy sources and charging all those EV’s?

    I imagine a lot the production capacity of basic infrastructure has been reallocated for all the “green” gear thus the issue.

    Thus me thinks all the cost estimates like above, even from just last year, are now utter bunk. And we won’t even be able to keep the lights on after the next destructive Gaia retribution in our puny existences.

    Once again my wise Polish father’s words over 40 years ago ring oh so true: The problem with this country is they are more worried about getting the dinner table settings to look right than worrying about getting food on the plate.

  3. It’s just another bonus of being part of the deranged dominion. The Chicoms wonder why we (in the west) are led by our stupidest people. Democracies vote themselves to death, sociopaths run the institutions, welfare states are all bankrupt, economic and cultural suicide is ubiquitous, Big tech and public education has made westerners into digitally entertained morons. Green theocracy has replaced electrical engineering. Is it any wonder that a province with more energy than the rest of the country is close to brownouts in winter. Sunny ways.

  4. L – “Wind power production averaged just 39 megawatts, out of a nameplate capacity of 617 megawatts. That’s an average of 6.3 per cent of nameplate capacity.”

    That generates a good question

    “Coal was running flat out as well, producing and average of 1,413 megawatts, or 40 per cent of total power production. That’s actually higher than the 1,389 megawatts listed on SaskPower’s website for the three coal-fired power stations, but then again, SaskPower has continued to use Boundary Dam Unit 4, despite it was supposedly retired at the end of 2021.”

    Instead of retiring coal fired power stations, should not their capacity be expanded to
    sell more exported power to Alberta, at least on an interim basis? Expanded demand generated by an Alberta economy unchained from Ottawa, will need to be met quickly.

    Reliable, cheap power gets northern people through every winter weather climate “crisis”.

    1. “should not their capacity be expanded to
      sell more exported power to Alberta, at least on an interim basis?”

      The grid connection between Alberta and Saskatchewan is far too small to have any meaningful effect.

      “Expanded demand generated by an Alberta economy unchained from Ottawa, will need to be met quickly.”

      Alberta is still landlocked regardless of relations with Ottawa and the so-called Sovereignty Act. And regardless, this means nothing as long as Alberta’s provincial police takes its orders from Ottawa. This also applies to Saskatchewan.

      A better question is “why did Alberta imagine that imitating German energy and electricity policy would be a good thing?”

        1. One term of NDP has brought you to your knees?
          Ontario has suffered decades of these fools, and we don’t have “grid warnings.” Same for Manitoba and Quebec, the libtard east coast, soooo…the question is “What’s wrong with you people?”

          1. “One term of NDP has brought you to your knees?”

            Yes.

            “Ontario has suffered decades of these fools, and we don’t have “grid warnings.””

            Apples to oranges. How much of your electricity is carbon based and sourced from within the province? The lion’s share of our electricity was generated right here, from our very own coal & natural gas. Shut ’em both down in a matter of years, there’s no fallback position. QED.

  5. No “grid warnings” in ON and QC.
    Must be because we’re burning all those transfer payments in our new dollar-powered generators.
    Oh, and ON is already greenlighted to start building SMRs.

    1. Exactly the case. New SMRs is a decade-long program from now until the first one starts operating. But all of us know that what Ontario will do is burn all the gas necessary to keep the lights on. We went through the McGuinty/Wynne madness of wind/solar. It was a disaster so bad that the Liberals have been banished to non-party status two elections running.

      As for Red Rachel, true but only in part. It was the silly idiot Ed Stelmach who said no to nuclear. These days if you’re going to be a Conservative you have to do it intelligently, which Eddie was not. At least Jason Kenney understood that if you want to reduce coal-burning, nuclear was unavoidable.

      1. Stupid Stelmach, the Liar Kenney, Dead Prentice, that bitch Redford & the words, “conservative” and “intelligent”, do not belong in the same sentence.

  6. “No grid alerts here, at least yet.” I wouldn’t be so sure. At our place we get these full stop/full start interruptions in the power supply.
    Old Sask Power hands tell me it’s all those fancy new converters and switching devices required in the grid as it tries to cope with switching between power generated with energy and power generated with wind and solar. ‘Stabilizing’ the grid has taken on new meaning; just ask the Australians.

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