Last winter, during a cold snap, which is often accompanied by a high-pressure system that becalms the wind, Alberta’s wind farms, with a generating capacity of more than 5,000 megawatts, were producing about five megawatts of wind power — “almost nothing.”
Barry Penner, a former B.C. Environment minister and current chairman of the Energy Futures Institute, knows this because he was able to go to the Alberta Electric System’s website and pull up a dashboard that shows, in real-time, just how much power is being generated in Alberta, where it’s being generated, from what source, where it is being bought or sold, and for how much per megawatt (MW).
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