34 Replies to “Wind and solar”

    1. Agreed. The advantages of partnership between Saskatchewan and Alberta on nuclear energy should be evident to everyone.

    2. But let’s piss away our money on failed initiatives. How many palms are being greased?

      1. Chief Subsidi’ Secwépemc?
        Chief Pocketslined Loonies?

        Because nothing quite says loving mother turtle than covering her vistas in solar panels and wind factories for a far as the eye can scout.

    1. Yeah… especially in January.
      … Plenty of wind, though… Especially from all that hot air!

      1. Yeah, I wuz thinking that BIG WIND would have made a better thread title.

        Migawd, that pic of the personages involved. Can’t decide whether to laugh or cry. Maybe both and in that order.

    2. Meadow Lake is in the NW part of the province. I lived at approximately the same latitude in the NE of the province for a few years. During the winter I’d walk my child to the school bus stop at 8:30am and the sun wasn’t up yet. At 3:45pm I’d meet him at the bus stop and the sun had already set. So, in the depths of winter those solar panels will get less than 8 hours of sunlight. Summer days are quite long but the summer is very short in the north.

  1. Next, they can award a big power contract to Regina Railway Modellers Association Inc.
    At least those guys have actually built things.

    1. Yup … the natives can’t even figure out how to provide clean drinking water to their members.
      I’m sure these wind & solar projects will be a model of efficiency and cost effectiveness!!!
      Ha Ha Ha …. do I need a SARC tag … Ha Ha Ha

      Lots of new big screen TVs & new pick up trucks coming soon to the reserve … electrical power not so much.

  2. No government money other than a contract to buy energy at below retail prices?

    Seems fine.

      1. It’ll all fail likely but the above board announcement is positive.
        No government subsidies.

        1. I repeat, if you believe that, you are beyond hope. Calculate the total revenue over a 20 year useful life using an optimistic capacity factor of 30%, then look at the capital cost, maintenance cost, decommissioning cost, assume captial is free (it isn’t) and they are guaranteed losers, even on paper. Subsidies come in many forms, but there has never been an industrial scale windmill built anywhere in the world that made financial sense, not even counting the buried cost of having alternative supply available for the 70% of the time they don’t produce, the grid alterations required to handle variable frequency supply, etc. ad infinitum. THEY. DON’T, WORK.

  3. “Together, the 200 megawatt Rose Valley Wind Project and the 100 megawatt Southern Spring Solar Project will generate the equivalent power for about 125,000 Saskatchewan homes.”

    Is there a standard figure of POWER/HOUSES used to describe the capacity of wind and solar projects?
    It seems that 200 megawatts/125K homes comes to 2400 watts per home.
    What happens when your neighbor turns on his heat pump? Or plugs in his EV?

    1. That would be 125K of the new modular homes that Carney’s Liberals are going to build for us of course. Glorified camping trailers.

        1. We never said you could power them all at the same time. Sacrifices must be made for Mother Earth, comrades.

          1. Can I claim power on MWF’s ? Or will it be determined by the first letter of my native name – “Swims with Beaver”

    2. Neither wind nor solar run anywhere near capacity, so those numbers are meaningless, besides their GIGO math.

  4. The less spinning baseload, the more unstable the grid. Reinforcing apartheid has got SFA to do with it.

  5. The war bonnet used to be a symbol of great achievement in the plains natives. Now it seems any person with an iota of indigenous DNA can done the sacred headdress.

    1. It appears as several *ahem* … 2-spirit … Injuns are donning the Chief feathers

  6. Using the Global Solar Atlas, and it’s most optimistic analysis for it’s proposed 100MWp solar facility at Corobach, it estimates that it would produce 144.644 GWh in the first year. (and like 3% less each year after the first)

    A 100MW conventional power plant running 97% of the time would generate 849.72 GWh per year, and doesn’t add any instability to the grid.

    https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?s=49.112793,-105.51705&m=site&c=49.112793,-105.51705,11&pv=ground,180,43,100000

  7. Super.
    Give major power projects, paid for with Saskie taxes, to a particular racial cohort of people who pay no taxes at all.
    Smart.

  8. Oh Canada, prolonging the failed “wards of government” status of Indigenes. No treaty, anywhere, is eternal; a strong case can be made for one not applying after the second generation of parties to the pact. Handing money and power to anachronistic chiefs is absurd.

  9. I thought Saskatchewan was smarter than this, falling for the green scam.
    Kinew in Manitoba is promising to line the pockets work with the Chiefs here on windfarms too.

  10. Indians are born with an innate understanding of population dynamics and ecology and have never mismanaged or over harvested anything to do with nature ever.

    1. Fact: injuns NEVER built a factory of any sort whatsoever! So evolved. So in touch with nature. They embrace – NONE of the above.

    2. I have nothing against Indians, but stop painting them out to be these super-natural stewards of the land. I’ve been to enough reservations to see how they treat the environment.

      1. “I have nothing against Indians, but stop painting them out to be these super-natural stewards of the land. I’ve been to enough reservations to see how they treat the environment.”

        Indeed. I remember when the natives in Washington were threatening to resume hunting whales if they didn’t get more money. In the traditional manner of their people, you know…with .50 calibre Barretts.

  11. Free money is less offensive when it comes with a headdress.. But then again, if you don’t take it.. Somebody else will.. I respect that.. But green energy is still a boondoggle in so many ways, that I cant be bothered to list..

    My fingers are tired..

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