Renewable energy’s share on German power grids reached 55% in 2023, regulator says

[Guest]

Saskatchewan sent 143 Mega watts to rescue Alberta from their deregulated high priced electricity shortfall! You owe us Hamloc!

Lucky Moe has stood his ground and not caved like Nutley did when she was applying for her social license

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So Alberta is the only province on the prairies?

You have heard of backup sources and imports from BC hydro?

With such a record cold spell and your lights are still on?

Hamloc what happened?

Yes, for example we can follow your advice and make up the shortfall by borrowing energy from Manitoba.
Except you also bragged that Manitoba is going to add only wind and solar going forward to meet increasing domestic demand.
So much for that idea.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Chuck, I asked you a question about percentages recently, and you still haven't answered.
Earlier this morning in Alberta, wind and solar together were producing 0 MW of power.
While consumption was around 11,000 MW.
By how many percent do we need to increase our wind and solar to meet demand under this scenario?
This is your chance to redeem yourself after the embarrassing math mistakes you keep making.

[fjlip]

Hot temps, COLD temps, DRY, WET, WINDY are all records due to phucking climate change Cult believers...they swallow the SHIT from Guilt Bow

[chuckChuck]

Premiers pan green-energy plans as cold weather strains Alberta's electricity grid

[url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-premiers-pan-green-energy-plans-as-cold-weather-strains-albertas/[/url]

Alberta’s grid operator has partially pinned the crisis on two natural gas generators that weren’t operating, as well as a lack of renewable energy being produced due to low winds and a shortage of daylight at this time of year.

But a spokesman in Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s office said the federal government has always said “reliability, along with affordability, is one of the driving forces behind how the regulations will be designed.”

“The regulations would never put the province in a situation where they did not have a reliable baseload, and it is why we are making provisions so that fossil fuel burning plants can run without carbon capture technologies during peak usage or in situations of emergency,” read an e-mailed statement.

“To say we want to ’shut down plants’ is simply not the case.”

University of Alberta energy economist Andrew Leach said Smith and Moe appear to be framing the debate as an either/or choice between natural gas and renewables. In reality, he argues, there needs to be a mix of energy sources, including better tie-ins with other jurisdictions.

Modellers know there will be days when demand will be high and generation from renewables is low, he said. Planning for backup needs to happen in advance, he noted, and it’s the system operator’s job to do that.

“Whether it’s natural gas, nuclear, import capacity, battery storage, etc., geothermal. There’s nobody that’s arguing against that,” Leach said.

Jason Wang, senior analyst on energy policy at clean-energy think tank the Pembina Institute, said Alberta needs to move ahead with changes to its market regulations so that energy storage from renewables can play a larger role.

Wang said that on Saturday, batteries were able to supply power for the first time during a grid event.

“Storage was able to basically buy us a few more hours of not needing a grid alert,” Wang said.

Wang said natural gas generation also faces limits during extreme cold, though he said Alberta’s generators are better prepared for that scenario than facilities in Texas that came under strain when a cold snap caused blackouts in 2021.

AESO Spokesman Leif Sollid said consumption dropped 100 megawatts within seconds of people receiving alerts on Saturday evening, and demand declined another 100 MW within a few more minutes.

“That was enough to make up the shortfall that we were facing and that prevented rotating outages,” Sollid said in an interview Sunday.

The AESO declared another grid alert on Sunday afternoon, urging Albertans to reduce electricity consumption to essential use only until 8 p.m. to avoid the possibility of rotating outages.

[J88]

A problem with -30 or colder is Cold Brittle Behavior many materials lose their strength if there is wind the wind mills could self destruct so a stretch of consistant cold weather would keep them out of production

[fjlip]

Batteries discharge or chargers won't work!

[chuckChuck]

2 natural gas plants shut down unexpectedly and were not running in Alberta as well. But all the blame rests on renewables? Only in Alberta!

[cropgrower]

and all the bird choppers were shut down when needed most

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Chuck, tell us that fairy tale about the renewables transition again please:

Worldwide electricity generation from coal hit record highs in 2023, while thermal coal exports surpassed 1 billion metric tons for the first time as coal's use in power systems continues to grow despite widespread efforts to cut back on fossil fuels.
Coal-fired electricity generation was 8,295 terawatt hours (TWh) through October, up 1% from the same period in 2022 and the highest on record, according to environmental think tank Ember.
Total thermal coal exports were 1.004 billion metric tons for the whole year, up by 62.5 million tons or 6.6% from 2022, ship-tracking data from Kpler shows.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/comm...23-2024-01-18/