First rule of prairie climate: the wind don’t blow when it’s cold. It’s -26C in Calgary this morning, -28C in Edmonton.
At this moment, 19-Feb-2026 @ 06:59, 92.1% of Alberta's electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind is at 1.9% of capacity and producing 1.0% of total generation, while solar is at 2.6% of capacity and producing 0.4% of total generation. At the same time, we are importing… pic.twitter.com/GtOTuuPFnq
— Reliable AB Energy (@ReliableAB) February 19, 2026
Do not go Nuclear. You will be bystanders watching the FILTHY Leftist Cult of Nuclear invade your conservative province.
Nuclear is pure social filth. Gaysex flags, crosswalks, and every minority victim group uplifted in a perfectly Marxist Government industry.
“Gaysex flags, crosswalks”. Add LGBTQ friendy businesses and restaurants signs, PRIDE signs in shopping centers and you have downtown Calgary
Wind and solar need to be banned for grid power outright.
They simply don’t deliver the goods and are horrendously expensive.
The amount of virgin land and habitat destroyed is not worth it.
Plus the animals killed while in “operation”, if you can call it that.
There is zero reason to build wind and solar power other than political patronage. Canada’s mid 1990s hydro, nuclear, coal and natgas plant electrical power plants and grid was so stable and secure that no one really thought about about it, except during storms. People grumbled about power bills but the vast majority didn’t have to choose between heat or food.
Frankly, returning many of our rules and regulations to the 1990s standard would be a massive improvement compared to 2000-2026 Canadian rules and regulations. Not just in power production but things like building codes, development fees, immigration, government staffing levels and environmental regs to name a few. Recognize the early 21st century as an experiment that went horribly wrong.
L – “There is zero reason to build wind and solar power, other than political patronage.”
You say that as if it was a bad thing.
Political patronage might be having public monies going to politically connected people doing legitimate public projects. That would be unfair. The “Climate Crisis” is blatant fraud, where more than money is lost. It has been used to weaken Western Civilization and transfer the wealth generating benefits of the Industrial Revolution, from the West, to the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party. The scale of harm is global and growing. The strategy has been demoralization, which is winning without having to risk defeat in a kinetic theatre, only the theatre of the mind. It is very Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.
The return of pagan worship of the nature deity requires human sacrifice; something its self appointed high priests have always demanded. Questioning such is blasphemy, which is punished by cancelation, in effect banishment from public life. Censorship is the black mold of politics. It thrives in the dark and damp. Which is why Prof. Jordan Peterson is so allergic to it.
Political patronage is a powerful force. But, you’d think examples like power outages in Spain, deindustrialization in Germany and skyrocketing power prices in Ontario and UK would have been an equally powerful force to realize that wind and solar energy are dangerous to political power. Energy poverty leads to political problems.
It’s insane to me that we are sitting on all this natural gas and wondering how to produce power. I’m old enough to remember how this was the clean energy and the government pushed hard for people to switch over. And it was a good idea too…
Saskpower was converting over to natgas one 300MW unit at a time but, as usual, Ottawa made it as difficult as possible. So now Saskpower is going to refurbish its coal plants instead.
Basically, yeah. The Clean Electricity Regulations, as first implemented, would have banned all natural gas and coal fired power, so the province of Saskatchewan said, “Screw it. If that’s the case, we’ll do whatever we want. And we shall.”
No, no, no … what you need is giant stinking battery farms out on the Sask prairie … to store all that cheap, green, Net zero energy when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining! Oh, wait … batteries don’t perform well in -35deg.C temps. No problem … just bury the massive battery farms under the frostline in thousand hectare concrete cellars.
Just think of all the $$$ QuickDick could make leasing his Canola fields to the Feds for battery farms!? Kinda a reverse tariff. Well, except you’ll still have to buy the batteries from Red China or LG in South Korea (Musk batteries are poison to Canadians)
Wind provides zero net benefit. When you need it most, it provides the least. And solar in the winter between 49 and 60 degrees North is a joke at best. There could be a benefit playing solar and wind against new hydro projects but we would be still paying for double the capacity.
Driving through Idaho Tuesday, turbines standing still, no wind.
Yesterday in Arizona, the wind was blowing so hard, the turbines were Off.
How is that working out for us?
Showed -30 here in the ‘Bridge this morning.
It’s a time like this that I would like to see those advocates of “renewable” energy have their homes solely and exclusively powered by the miraculous planet saving technology.
The solution is to make wind and solar on the grid responsible for supplying power at say 50% of nameplate capacity for 48 hrs at any point of time. They won’t be able to afford the storage or backup.
Wind could pump water to the top of 200 foot hills and power generation is by hydro. They would still have to be careful to prevent outages.
That is done at some hydro installations in Europe, where water from a basin at the foot of the dam is pumped back up to the reservoir when overall power demand is low, say at night and when there’s enough wind to turn the turbines to power the pumps.
Always with the “fossil fuels” BS to slander petroleum, the second most abundant liquid on earth.
Propping up the imbecilic lie of petroleum being somehow related to fossils, implying scarcity. About as scientific as claiming oceans and lakes come from crocodile tears.
Wind and solar is useful for individual applications. Those (homeowners) who can’t get hooked to the grid.
Friends of mine can’t – way too far away.
They have batteries.
And propane.
And a generator.
The people responsible for large scale applications are thieves and criminals.
We have solar panels on our roof; useful but it takes about about 15-20 years before you recoup the installation cost.
Yep. Just about the time you have to replace them. Where’s the win?
yo. AB. a suggestion, if it looks like youre stuck in the role of Canaduh’s ATM, you need to gear your electricity usage to . . . . . . . to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the chinook winds.
just sayin’ . . . . . .
Biomass: Buddy’s wood stove.
Yes!
The wind don’t blow when it’s cold and the sun don’t shine at night. You need natural gas to back up renewable energy so … why not just use natural gas?