Another grid buckles;
Polish power grid operator PSE asked some companies to lower power use on Friday evening, while generators will need to provide extra capacity to boost reserves for the peak demand hours.
PSE announced the ‘danger period’ during which there would be a lack of sufficient reserves in the system would run from 1700-1900 GMT.
While the announcement of the danger period marks a precedent, the grid manager regularly pays fees to power plants to keep generators on standby and to industrial users to be ready to cut their consumption.
PSE said the announcement would not affect regular energy consumers and was not immediately available for further comment, Poland’s climate ministry said it was monitoring the situation.
“I have called for the energy security team to convene. The situation is due to low winds and renewable energy today. Power reserves are being refilled. We are not threatened by a blackout,” Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskwa wrote on Twitter.
This seems like a good time to introduce the Board of Directors of SaskPower, the people responsible for bringing this system to our economy. You’ll be impressed by depth of their electrical generation credentials.
Board of Directors of SaskPower. Its actually scary to see the complete and total lack of power production and distribution qualifications on this board. They make Hunter Biden look qualified for his Barisma membership. The remuneration must be excellent, since none of those grifters would do that for free.
Look to pretty much any board of any public entity, any publicly traded entity, etc…..
There are all populated by people who are frauds! In fact, and it is a sad fact, the only boards these days who are at least somewhat populated by people who understand the mission of what that entity is supposed to do are those entities devoted to destroying the west, such as environmental groups.
As for this saskpower board, from people with tourism degrees and apparent football fans, what can one expect but higher prices, less production, and hopes pinned on fairy dust. They probably figure an EV car can recharge itself. Oh well, as long as the riders can keep playing I guess, day only of course, no light at night.
Plum jobs for kissing the right ass or being a friend of a friend or a close relative. I thought Saskatchewan was ran by a better class of people than most provinces. Wrong again.
There is 1 electrician, and one guy with an engineering degree that doesn’t seem to be using it.
Pretty much the same for most of the boards like this
Funny thing. I went to high school and occasionally shoot skeet with the electrician. Very smart, and very capable. He owns and manages the largest electrical contracting company in Saskatchewan.
I graduated from civil engineering with the guy with the engineering degree in 1979. Another very smart, capable guy. He has owned and managed International Road Dynamics for over 30 years.
I have not, however, had the occasion to discuss the global warming, er, climate change fiasco with either of them, so I have no idea if they know what is going on or not I suspect that they will go along to get along and would be afraid to be called a “denier’. Too bad, because if they used their common sense they
would never agree to go along with this “carbon dioxide is a pollutant” madness.
Well one guy on the list probably knows how to use a voltmeter.
I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I’d be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
Here’s what I’ve been doing… https://earnincome00.blogspot.com
But hey, they have a journeyman electrician there.
That’s good enough, right?
L – He could tell the difference between a male plug and female socket. That knowledge is
becoming scarce these days. Heck, it’s even a risk to one’s social credit score in gov’t.
organizations to admit to knowing that.
Boards of Directors should have the capacity of critical thought in the company’s main products/services, finance, and also in short, medium and especially long term planning.
They should have independence to, in the public interest, veto bad decisions without fearing
a loss of income and position on the board.
I wonder how many there were able to critique their company’s policy and decisions regarding 1.)Covid-19. 2.)Analyze how e.i. E.U. energy policy is causing political instability and the economic suicide via the de-industrialization of Europe and the U.K. both for this winter, and for decades to come? This in the context of Canadian and U.S. politicians doing the same.
Or the B of D could be, in part, a reward for those who raise the most money for the party in power. That is rumoured to be the most serious non-public question in Sask. politics.
“a male plug and female socket”
That is so 1955. Today we have LGBTQXYZ plugs and sockets.
Yeah. The school system is trying to make sure every 5-year-old knows about male plugs and female sockets, and why they don’t really mean anything except if you’re trying to charge your phone.
I went through the SaskPower Board of Directors page and gave feedback as requested, by asking all but 3 what experience they had that was relevant to their position on the Board.
Any nation that has, among its useless plethora of Ministries of Silly Walks, a Ministry of “Climate”, is extremely likely to be well on the road to energy poverty and shortages. Make believe solutions to invented problems involving make believe laws of physics may attract mindless voters but reality always inserts itself eventually.
Yup. All one needs is a college degree, any old degree will do. Like Chris says, not one person who has worked in power generation or distribution, the sort of person that would know about such things. And not one meteorologist who could explain to them, in basic terms, the source of wind and what happens to it during high-pressure systems, the sort of systems that bring us the hottest and coldest days and nights. No wind. No power from those ugly turbines. Right when when need it the most.
Even a commercial pilot like me could tell them all about that. We had to study that stuff.
It’s failing in Europe, but our folks here are determined to fail the same way. Why?
Many of them don’t have degrees, just “certificates” so they went to college for 2 years…
But I bet they have the right connections
Not one of them with the brains to look at Europe and see how they destroyed their energy system.
I used to work with a power generation electrician who was very gung ho for wind power. He was smart enough to actually look into it and research it honestly.
He changed his mind completely. It simply does not make any sense economically or as part of a grid.
Freddie is owner of Ted Matheson Men’s Wear,…. That’s a good fit for Fred. Pun intended.
SaskPower motto – Serving Saskatchewan with Style
His bio says Fred is the owner of a third-generation family business.
That appears to put him in second place behind the journeyman electrician in terms of board members with some background related to the generation of power.
Freezing to death in the dark … is simply a “transition” to “clean, green, renewable” energy. We’re ALL Trans now.
And transition sounds so progressive, Kenji 🙂
How would we ever get our electricity without trans-formers?
“China May Boost Coal Power Plant Building Amid Energy Crunch
Engineering firm expects 270 GW of new capacity by 2025”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/china-to-add-more-coal-plants-than-thought-to-ease-energy-crunch
You don’t need experience in energy production/management to know that AGW is a full blown fraud and that C02 is life.
You do need to kneel to the gods of climate change, CRT, trans etc, to get to serve on boards.
Ill bet not one of these people would have the courage to go against the opinions/misinformation puked forth on the 6 oclock news – it might foul up their resumes, and as such ability to serve on boards
I am sure the Indian Chairman knows all about electricity generation. You skeptics should just have faith in our betters that they know what’s best for us. /very big sarc
At least that BoD has some business experience to fall back upon.
Ever check out the BCHydro BoD? Ugh……
Doug Allen, Chair, was Vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. In 2015, he was the Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TransLink. Between 2011 to 2014, Mr. Allen served as the CEO of InTransit BC
Lynette DuJohn, She is a member of the Musqueam Indian Band – YVR Airport Sustainability and Friendship Agreement – Her previous experience includes the role as Chief Information Officer at BC Lottery Corporation. She was previously the Vice Chair of the Council of Chief Information Officers (CCIO) for Province of B.C.
Irene Lanzinger, President of the BC Federation of Labour (BCFED) and held that position from November 2014 up to her recent retirement in the fall of 2018. Prior to being elected President, she served as Secretary-Treasurer for the BCFED from 2010 to 2014.
Irene began her career as a secondary science and math teacher in Abbotsford. In 2000, Irene became chief negotiator for the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), bargaining on behalf of 41,000 members province-wide. She was elected Vice-President of the BCTF in 2002 and President in 2007.
Chief Clarence Louie, Osoyoos Indian Band. He is an entrepreneur, with success in building tourism and industrial enterprises, and has an interest in building strong relationships and advancing reconciliation in the province.
Nalaine Morin is a member of the Tahltan Nation. She is a principal at ArrowBlade Consulting Services and has led and managed the environmental review of several large resource development projects on behalf of First Nations. Nalaine also serves as a Senior Technical Advisor to Citxw Nlaka’pamux Assembly where she provides project management,
Catherine co-leads Pulse Technologies, a health-tech start-up based in Vancouver. She is the former President and Lead Executive Officer of Technical Safety BC.
Catherine Roome, serves as a Director of Prospera Credit Union, and McElhanney Ltd., and holds advisory positions with Neuroethics Canada, Ingenium Canada’s Science and Technology Museums, as well as UBC and the University of Victoria’s Engineering & Computer Science faculties.
There are others on the Board, that are accountants, financial, and engineering hydroelectric backgrounds, no argument with them. But this list?
POLITICAL.
That was much what the old Ontario Hydro’s Board looked like back in 1992. Once Peterson and Rae got through with it the Board served no purpose other than to represent various minority and splinter groups that the government was courting for electoral purposes. This was the trash assigned to “govern” the world’s largest nuclear power utility.
No wonder the Board drove the utility into the ground. And this ridiculous clown circus had the infamous Maurice Strong as Chairman of the Board and President and CEO. Remember: anything Saskatchewan can do badly, the Ontario NDP can do ten times worse.
I just pray to God that they use the correct pronouns during their masked Zoom meetings.
There is one engineer, and least a couple of the ladies are not bad looking birds, so there is that…….
But is he professional?
looking on APEGS, the answer seems to be no
I assure you Terry Bergen was a professional engineer after the requisite waiting period while working as a civil engineer at Kilborn Engineering. He is now retired so he may not have kept up his membership. And as CEO or IRD he probably had no reason to maintain his P. Eng. status. But he is a qualified and capable engineer.
I haven’t talked to him in years, so it may be possible that he buts this AGW crap. If he does, too bad. I have been on a few boards myself. It is always very discouraging to find out how one person has so little power when there are 12 people on the board. One voice is meaningless when 11 others already have their minds made up.