Seriously, I was working on yet another wind story when this came up.
For 12 hours again this past weekend, power in Alberta was “free,” with BC and Montana benefitting greatly.
Zero dollar price is “free,” is it not?
Seriously, I was working on yet another wind story when this came up.
For 12 hours again this past weekend, power in Alberta was “free,” with BC and Montana benefitting greatly.
Zero dollar price is “free,” is it not?
Having to dump electricity from your grid to another’s for free to prevent severe damage to the grid because you are giving wind farms free reign to parasitize your grid (guaranteed purchase even at zero) in a contrived “market” is all a result of central planning. The baseload producers can’t scale back fast enough when the windfarms are generating near capacity for a brief interlude. Solution – make windfarms and solar feed the grid according to grid demand at their cost while competing with reliable generating plants based on firm $/kwh. They have no business being connected to the grid so if they want in it should be at their cost not that of reliable producers or rate payers / taxpayers .
Government accounting, good grief.
I saw this too. It is important to know that this is a marginal price as most power is produced in Alberta under longer term contracts. For example our REA contracts with a power producer for the bulk of the power consumed in the area. This price, most assuredly, is not zero. They do buy some on the margin which has worked out very well for them this past year. Very few understand the concept of marginal price unfortunately. That said we have gone past the point were so called renewables are destabilizing the grid and this will not be good for the future.
Thanks for that. Note the story refers to side deals.
Personally, I think the concept of marginal pricing setting the price for the market is ludicrous. But oil behaves like that, too. Ludicrous there, as well.
But when it looks ludicrously capitalistic and opportunistic, what is the other option? What’s wrong, in my opinion, is that the end customers don’t concretely enough pay for dispatchable capacity and that is not part of the public discussion – the public discussion is all about the market price of megawatts at a given time. Yet, the utility bill does contain capacity issues – either directly or indirectly.
The discussion is missing the visualisation of costs related to grid function and stability.
Even worse, in our (Finnish) system, the grid function works like a tax from Blackrock – they charge whatever because they know how to increase the grid price legally, which the parliament is out fishing from a hole in the ice.
Nice to see that Canada is #1 in at least something:
From Twitchy:
“MAID in the Great White North: Canadian per Capita Euthanasia Deaths Now Beat U.S. Gun Deaths.”
Amy Curtis – 6:00 PM on December 15, 2024
Giving it away for free is only marginally better than paying up to $300 per MW/h to other places for them to take it.
having an above than avg layman’s understanding of electricity, (polarity, 3 phase) l lack understanding of the big generation and transmission issues.
how an ‘arrangement’ can be formalized that one must GIVE the stuff away when every time a blade spins it costs money in building, maintenance and disposal, is baffling.
the only and a broad explanation is that *it is part and parcel the nature of green energy*
It is part and parcel of the grift.
If it is free so often, how come I still get a SaskPower bill every month?
‘Notably, BC plants to ” exempt wind projects from environmental assessment processes” in an effort to aid in the development of these projects.’
Oh my God.
I wonder where they will get the coal, oil and gas needed to build those destructive, useless wind turbines? When will someone on this planet get a functioning brain?
China.
Green Bird Blender.
BC apparently has too many large raptors, which must be culled from the skies.