Who world have believed it just a few short years ago.
Mighty Oil and Gas Alberta can’t keep the lights on !
Epoch Times reports in a headline :
‘Rotating Outages in Alberta Caused by ‘Combination of Many Things,’ Regulator Says.’
The story goes on to say :
Residents in Alberta experienced rotating outages after a second electrical grid alert was issued this week, according to the Alberta Electric System Operator.
The organization said a grid alert due to a shortage of electricity supply on April 5 resulted in rotating outages around the province.
“The AESO has declared a Grid Alert as of 6:49 a.m. due to tight supply. Generation is slowly coming online, and we expect conditions to return to normal by 10:00 a.m.,” said an April 5 post on X, formerly Twitter.
An alert was also declared on the evening of April 3, Marie-France Samaroden, vice president of Grid Reliability–Operations at AESO, said during a media conference on April 5.”
Of course , the regulator cited many factors . It is always many factors .
There are hundred of thousands of barrels of oil leaving Alberta every day ( soon it will be over 800,000 barrels from over 300,000 barrels) and many natural gas pipelines going south . Billions of cu ft a week.
This also happened earlier this year when people there were told in another outage situation to ration the use of electrical appliances.
It is a fact that steady coal generation is almost gone in Alberta and according to Alberta’s own statistics intermittent wind and solar generation has replaced it with this new unreliable generation .
Wind generated 1445 MW in 2018—in 2022 it was 3618 MW
Solar in 2020 generated 107 MW and in 2022–1338 MW.
This according to Alberta’s own Electrical Regulator.
Like the false safe and effective mantra in health , so in electrical power that modern , wonderful reliable solar and wind —just shines and blows some of the time———-
Welcome to our false and unreliable world!!!
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