Here we go again

[jazz]

Exactly the answer I expected. So during the period your referring to wind power efficiency got as high as 85%.

hamloc we have some virtue signalers here in Regina with rooftop solar.

The freezing rain put a 1/4 of ice on them last week and then the hurricane drove freezing sleet then snow right on top of them which is now stuck for the winter. And nobody has bothered to climb up there and sc**** them clean. Dont even want to hire some of those good paying green jobs to climb up there and do it for them.

So solar power equals zero for them for the rest of the season.

Putting critical infrastructure in the path of canadian weather is just about the stupidest thing you could ever do. Thats why they spent a decade burying rural power and running gas in - one of the smartest programs ever.

There is no place in Canada safe from the weather. Every corner has experienced a recent disaster. Remember Quebec's ice storm?

[Old Cowzilla]

What would be wrong with smaller hydro projects, why do they have to be massive. These wind,solar projects only serve small areas at best. Some off our regular dams are getting long at the tooth on some off our lakes whynot replace them with dams with smaller generators to enhance the GRID.

[Old Cowzilla]

By the way -30 this morn and not a breath of wind or sunshine, hydro meter spinning like a top!!!

[fjlip]

"where is there a jurisdiction where batteries can power the province, state or country for days on end with very little to no renewable production to recharge them?!?!"

In GREEN dreamville, BS Country.

[Hamloc]

There is a new wind farm proposed for Vulcan county near the village of Lomond. It will consist of 83 turbines spread over 17500 acres. It will cost $500 million to build and have a capacity of 514 megawatts. It will be built by a company from Germany. Their is an existing wind farm in Vulcan county called Blackspring ridge with a capacity of 300 megawatts, when I looked this morning it was producing 1 megawatt. We are on day 4 of low wind production, I am still perplexed as to how batteries charged by renewables are the answer. First off you have to have enough production to meet demand and then you need excess production to charge the batteries. In the last 4 days we have had neither. We could have 5 times as many wind turbines in Alberta this morning and they would only satisfy 12% of the demand never mind having excess power to charge batteries, fml!!

[bucket]

There is a new wind farm proposed for Vulcan county near the village of Lomond. It will consist of 83 turbines spread over 17500 acres. It will cost $500 million to build and have a capacity of 514 megawatts. It will be built by a company from Germany. Their is an existing wind farm in Vulcan county called Blackspring ridge with a capacity of 300 megawatts, when I looked this morning it was producing 1 megawatt. We are on day 4 of low wind production, I am still perplexed as to how batteries charged by renewables are the answer. First off you have to have enough production to meet demand and then you need excess production to charge the batteries. In the last 4 days we have had neither. We could have 5 times as many wind turbines in Alberta this morning and they would only satisfy 12% of the demand never mind having excess power to charge batteries, fml!!

Is this the one that will be decommissioned in 2048?????

[littledoggie]

Something I've wondered about - doesn't screwing all those solar panels onto a roof compromise the roof? Not only the weight of them, but all those holes that are punched into the roof. What happens when you need new shingles?

[Sodbuster]

Now is the time to start building new nuclear plants, the longer we wait the more it’s going to cost.

[farming101]

Storing electricity has always been expensive

[chuckChuck]

In the case of hydro, Manitoba has a surplus and is next to Saskatchewan. BC also has a significant amount of hydro and depending what happens with Site C may have more.

If you are wondering how Alberta will manage a large supply of intermittent renewables why not ask the AESO to explain their plan.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

In the case of hydro, Manitoba has a surplus and is next to Saskatchewan. BC also has a significant amount of hydro and depending what happens with Site C may have more.

If you are wondering how Alberta will manage a large supply of intermittent renewables why not ask the AESO to explain their plan.

An even easier way to see into the future as to how we might manage a large supply of intermittent unreliables, is to look at Germany, Britain, Austraila, Caifornia etc. Looks like rationing, brown outs, black outs, high costs, variable costs to discourage usage at the times it is needed most etc. are in our future. Who needs block heaters, non frozen stock waterers, at night in the winter during cold spells anyways?

[Guest]

Something I've wondered about - doesn't screwing all those solar panels onto a roof compromise the roof? Not only the weight of them, but all those holes that are punched into the roof. What happens when you need new shingles?

do you think anyone that installs green dream panels would look that far ahead, lol,lol,lol, haha , haha, lmao ???????