@ReliableAB – I forgot that I built this chart. Daily average generation for wind and solar with maximum (name plate) capacity for 2022.
@ReliableAB – I forgot that I built this chart. Daily average generation for wind and solar with maximum (name plate) capacity for 2022.
What is the unit for the vertical axis?
Nothing I hate more than charts with unlabelled axes.
X link does’t work.
Growth of subsidies for power generated by wind appear to have not kept up with installed capacity.
I called this when they announced this scam
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/world-energy-gh2-interconnection-electricity-1.6985343
Not quite understanding what the chart is meant to show. The link doesn’t work.
It appears that output frequently drops to near zero. Output seems to be only a small fraction of whatever the “maximum capacity” line is meant to represent. What does the “maximum capacity” line represent? Is it for the total system or for the wind and solar components only? There seems to be a significant step upwards in the maximum capacity around August but without any corresponding increase in output. If that is the case someone made a useless “investment”. I hope it doesn’t cost tax or rate payers. Oops, silly me of course it will.
The vertical axis is presumably Megawatts… this link is updated every minute to show electricity being generated in Alberta and also shows maximum capacity by type of generation.
http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServlet
The figure of 3853 MW maximum capacity shown for wind at the link is close to what the above chart shows for 2022 year-end.
Yes, it’s called “Night” and “Calm”, the periods where renewables are as useless at T*ts on a bull.. Then there’s “Overcast” and “Too Windy”, to also throw a wrench in the works. See also “Winter”..
Semi /s
Eyeballing an average gives the unreliables a capacity factor of somewhere between 25 and 30% which is no different that what they were 20 years ago. Low density systems can’t physically overcome their energy per sq metre limitations and weather / sunlight intensity dependencies. They also parasitize the grids by compelling the additional expense of running spinning back-up to keep the grid stable for the randomized 75% of the time they don’t produce or partially produce, necessitating the replication of the entire grid capacity with reliable baseload. The reliable baseload is what the Spawn-Fuhrer’s Quebec/Green Peace attack dog demands almost entirely replaced in 8 years in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Premier Smith should insist that if Ottawa wants Alberta to install a reliable grid that ignores their gas which is cleaner than 80% of global energy, the only way that will happen is that Quebec should pay for an Alberta nuclear baseload based on the fact that Québec’s hydro exports weren’t factored into the “equalization” calculations that resulted in the 10s of billions that Alberta has mistakenly given to the province that Green peace Guilbeault represents.
How about that: Building more capacity didn’t create more energy. A point to be brought up at the next request for planning permission and government subsidy.
“Renewable” energy consists of outright robbery.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/03/expensive-cheap-energy/