Wind in Sask produced an average of 1.3% of its capacity on Wednesday

Insufferable Twits youmightbeinsaskatchewan 21 Comments
Construction of wind turbines at Assiniboia in January, 2021. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

It turns out that the same day Alberta’s wind power flatlined, so did Saskatchewan’s. SaskPower delays its data reporting two days, which is why it took until Friday to find this out. Note that the 1.3 per cent output was the average for the entire day, meaning that it was even lower for part of the day.

21 Replies to “Wind in Sask produced an average of 1.3% of its capacity on Wednesday”

  1. I would say that 1.3% (8MW) output of wind is right on target with the de-industrialization goals of Turdeau and other green cultists.
    Who needs power when the rest of us are forced back to the hunter-gatherer state.

    1. Exactly. What’s the problem, Sask.? Just use 1.3% of your normal energy use. Your PM insists. You see, this puts you much closer to nature … you get to experience the natural cycles of nature. Think of it as … “living organic”

    1. Shawn … this wins the best comment of the day so far (the day is early) .

      Indeed, if the salary of these political fools was factored on the % avg. daily output of these green policy monstrosities, then their tune would ‘turn on a dime’.

      … To quote the master.

    2. I have often thought that in jurisdictions which are all in for “renewable” energy that when it comes time for power shedding to stop a grid collapse, the first to be shut off and the last to be turned on should be all government buildings and the homes of politicians.

  5. “Wind power is cheap,” they told us. They keep telling us that, too.

    But how much per megawatt-hour once the costs are divided by the actual outputs? It would make coal and gas look mighty cheap.

    Someone elsewhere pointed out that average outputs are meaningless. “You can drown while wading across a river that averages three feet deep,” they said. Power generation needs to meet the extremes of demand, not the averages.

    1. And I always wonder if sun and wind power are “cheap”, why are power prices increasing so quickly?

    1. I remind Victoria residents that their gang greens opposed every hydro dam in BC. (Not sarc)

      And Victoria is a racist colonialist name for a city. They should rename their city Greta. (sarc)

    1. You miss the point…..these useless things require 24/7/365 backup usually from fossil fuel peakers. Any jurisdiction that believes that these monstrosities should be considered part of base load need to be horsewhipped publicly. There is a reason why farmers stopped using windmills so many decades ago.

    2. Wind power capacity factor averaged over a year ranges between 15 and 50% depending on location.

      Sask power says their peak demand was 3910 MW

      The Golden South Wind farm has 50 turbines and a capacity of 200 MW. Cost $350 million.

      To supply Saskatchewan current peak demand you’ll need 20 of these wind farms ($7 billion).

      But, but, the wind doesn’t blow all the time. Let’s assume 33% of the time ALL the wind farms are at capacity.

      Now we need 20 divided by 0.33 = 61 wind farms. Cost approximately $21 billion.

      Note: cost doesn’t include distribution system upgrades.

      But wait, there’s more. What % of turbines are unavailable due to maintenance or repairs. Assume 90% availablity. So wind farms = 61/.9 = 68 windfarms at a cost of $23 billion

      AND you still don’t have electricity 100% of the time, because there are sometimes several days when the wind doesn’t blow.

    1. “Stop building these damned things.”

      When we stop subsidizing them , they will stop building them.

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