For most of an hour on January 24th, Alberta's electricity grid saw more supply from solar than from coal. So, this week, you only get one historic graph.
Solar produced NOTHING for about 17 hours and you are cheering!! WOW.
Like most winter days, Saturday and Sunday were the same...no solar electricity for about 17 hours and it was -20°C across much of Alberta with some places reaching -30 C. Same thing in December when there were extreme cold warnings across Alberta ... solar produced nothing for about 17 hours per day.
Solar farms are investment schemes and nothing more. They have nothing to do with saving the planet. Grid batteries? Based on the state-of-the-art Tesla batteries, it would cost $8 BILLION to run Alberta for one hour with solar-stored power!
This is another very exciting milestone for power in Alberta. I believe it was this time last year that wind exceeded coal generation for the first time for several hours during a single day. Since then it has happened regularly that wind exceeds coal generation.
Solar produced NOTHING for about 17 hours and you are cheering!! WOW.
Like most winter days, Saturday and Sunday were the same...no solar electricity for about 17 hours and it was -20°C across much of Alberta with some places reaching -30 C. Same thing in December when there were extreme cold warnings across Alberta ... solar produced nothing for about 17 hours per day.
Solar farms are investment schemes and nothing more. They have nothing to do with saving the planet. Grid batteries? Based on the state-of-the-art Tesla batteries, it would cost $8 BILLION to run Alberta for one hour with solar-stored power!
This is another very exciting milestone for power in Alberta. I believe it was this time last year that wind exceeded coal generation for the first time for several hours during a single day. Since then it has happened regularly that wind exceeds coal generation.
So they throttled coal power down at 1 am to get there?
Big news. Shared it to Mastodon app as there are a few folks that have migrated from Twitter, who I know would enjoy same. Thx.