Alberta wind generation fell to 0.3 per cent capacity at supper last night. And the batteries that are supposed to back them up? Yeah, in the last 30 days, they output power a cumulative 0.09 per cent. That’s not 9 out of 100. That’s 9 out of 10,000. But the public thinks they will be used every night when the sun goes down or the wind doesn’t blow.
Wonder how SaskPower’s doing? We won’t be told for another two days.
Huh. Dead air in the middle of a cold streak. Whoda thunk it?
This will all be redeemed in a few days when the chinook hits. ‘Course, then it’ll be blowing too hard & the bird & bat choppers will have to feather the props or shut down entirely.
Lather, rinse, repeat…
yes it’s all a BIG WASTE OF TAX PAYER’S $$$$
Not for those that have regulated and then personally invested in such waste.
But someone got filthy rich off of the taxpayers over these.
Sadly, no one will notice or care until there is NO reliable back up power available.
That’s the thing about wind. It’s not kinda sorta unreliable. It’s not a little unreliable. It is utterly unreliable. And that’s kind of my point.
L – Brian, on the upside, then being “utter unreliable” means that is predictable.
In my view of Constitutional government, the most important Dept would be the Auditor-General’s Office.
It’s priority and budget would fund value for money audits of government expenditures, fully public ones.
Originally, that was the theory behind Parliaments and Legislatures.
Once again, it’s the typical high-pressure atmospheric system that brings the coldest winter weather and the hottest summer weather, and also with no wind. That’s what happens under high pressure zones. Clear winter skies that let whatever heat accumulated during the day leak out into space as infrared radiation. Clear summer skies that let the long-day, high sun cook us mercilessly. And no wind power for heating or cooling. Wonderful logic behind these things.
If you drive highway 2 in Alberta into Calgary, you’ll see this happening in realtime. The steam plumes from the backup gas powered generators at the east end of Glenmore, and the north end of Metis will be standing tall. If you see the plant by Crossfield pluming, you know it’s bad; I always thought that thing was mothballed, but now it’s in operation sometimes.
It’s a peaking facility, a storage battery attached to turbines to form a hybrid generation facility. So yes, if you see it in operation, the demand on the grid is high or they are filling in for an offline source..
Who ya gonna believe, the global warmunists or your own lying eyes?
Doesn’t matter if they spin or not, they make 100% of their carbon credits 24/7/365