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On Wednesday wind power generation in new Alberta collapsed Twice last week, SaskEnergy set daily yet again, but renewables are our salvation, right?

natural gas usage records, and we can thank The evening of July 26, I did something that’s ternal shortfall due to unforeseen outages or to become routine for me – check on the status of Al- displace internal generation during times where Alberta for most of our supply berta’s power grid. external market may provide short-term economic I can ZINCHUK do this because that province posts minBY BRIAN brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca ute-by-minute data on the power generation from Not only wasfacility Saskatchewan setting electrical coneach and every connected to the grid. That sumption records during the cold snap of last week includes 20 solar facilities totaling 977 megawatts of December, we also set two consecutive natural gas nameplate capacity, wind facilities totaling 2,269 consumption records,26too. megawatts, and batteryinbackup facilities According to three SaskEnergy a Dec. 31 release,total“Extreme weather across Saskatchewan this week reing 50 cold megawatts. sulted in record-breaking gas demand in the Nameplate capacity isnatural the maximum capacity province. On December 28 and 29, natural gas conthat facility can put out. When you build a coal, sumption surpassed the previous daily record of 1.57 natural gas(PJ) orwhich nuclear generally2021. speaking, petajoules wasplant, set in February you“A getnew thatdaily nameplate capacity all the time, unless record of 1.62 PJ was set on December 28 and broken again December 29 with you purposely dial itondown because youtotal don’tsystem need delivery of 1.64 PJ. Delivery numbers December 30 that much power.

But for wind andfor solar, as seven and 31 are not yet butgrid are have also expected to months of study offinalized, the Alberta shown, it’s exceed 1.6 PJ.” an entirely different thing.coincided with record powThe natural gas records Wind and solar, renewable, green er consumption.

On our Dec.supposed 29, SaskPower set another power “intermittent power,” meaning record salvation, in power are consumption for Saskatchewan.

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Because businesses reached 3,868 megawatts (MW) from my observations, they come and go a in lot.power And use, according to the Crown corporation. The previous at times when our society needs power the most, record of 3,792 MW was reached four years ago to the they willDec. occasionally day, on 29, 2017. disappear almost completely.

Since the last week December,has I periodicalSaskatchewan’s powerofproduction increasingly check shiftedout from to natural gas as a fuel Operator source. In ly thecoal Alberta Electric System December, Boundary Damalso Unitdo, 4, ahere coal-fired website, which you can at thisgenerlink ating unit, was retired, reducing the Boundary Dam http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSPower Station to 672 megawatts capacity. On the natDReportServlet. ural gas side, Saskatchewan has seen the construction SaskPower out this information.

In of several new won’t naturalput gas-fired power plants. They include the baseload North Battleford Power Station April I was told, “Saskatchewan’s electric utility is megawatts), Yellowhead Station peaking a(289 vertically integrated systemPower that has the responplant (also at North Battleford, 135 megawatts), the sibility for planning the system expansions to meet baseload Chinook Power Station at Swift Current (353 domestic demands, maintain reliability a megawatts) and peaking plantsystem Spy Hill Power at Stastable, cost rather353 than the whim of the tion (89reasonable megawatts).

Another megawatt baseload market. Due to this difference, displaying real-time market sensitive information would put Saskatchewan rate payers at a significant disadvantage when looking for opportunities to supply domestic load over the tie lines during periods of potential in-

options. ” similar to Chinook, is under construction plant, very Alberta’s at Moose Jaw. grid data is updated minute-by-minAllshowing of this added natural gas-fired power generaute, not just how much every power plant tion has, in turn,todriven higher of natural is contributing the grid, butusage each unit.

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Unit 2 is 401 out of 400, SaskEnergy said out it measures daily natural gas conand Unit 3 is 460 of 466 megawatts.

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I asked SaskPower some hard questions about This province is now largely dependent on neighthis back in April.

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And at 10:16 a.m., just as people are getting up from their morning coffee breaks, I did. And wind, at the time, was contributing just 22 megawatts, out of 2,269. Less than one per cent.

This wasn’t at night, as people were going to bed. It was during the middle of the morning, when conceivably almost the entire population is at work, being productive. Industry is running. Welders are welding. Computers computing. Maybe even some electric cars are being charged at work. And wind was producing less than one per cent. That’s effectively nothing.

There is no way to describe this other than a complete and utter failure.

And this has happened time and time again. I’m losing track of how many times I’ve seen this, and written about it. But it’s a lot. I’ve listed a number of those stories at the bottom of this column.

What happens when we double or triple or quadruple our reliance on wind and solar? What happens when the whole fleet, as Alberta’s 26 wind farms, drops to a cumulative 1 per cent in the middle of the day? Will it be better when there’s 75 wind farms? So far, more is not proving better. So do we have rolling blackouts?

And if you think solar power is so much better, it’s not. A few weeks ago another random check of the Alberta grid showed that Alberta was getting just 13.5 per cent of its solar capacity – at noon! And that was during the week of the summer solstice, when not only should we be getting the most hours of solar energy in a day, but its highest intensity due to the angle of the sun in the sky.

Alberta is far further down this path to renewables than Saskatchewan. Their build out of the aforementioned 26 wind facilities, 20 solar facilities and three battery backups makes us pale in comparison. As of today, Saskatchewan has nine grid-scale wind facilities and two solar facilities connected, and they’re working on a 20 megawatt battery storage facility for Regina.

This is the path Saskatchewan is on. SaskPower is continually moving towards implementing more power generation from wind and solar.

Real impacts So far, Saskatchewan and Alberta have been able to cope with the intermittency of solar and wind.

But what happens when it becomes a much high fraction of our power generation?

My wife is a long-time ER registered nurse.

Does my wife’s emergency room have to run on generators? If she’s doing a code blue on your father, or maybe even you, what happens if the power goes out? What if the generator fails to fire up?

Do we shut down our steel mill in Regina? Close your business’ doors? Do we just accept regressing to the power generation reliability of a third world country?

Time and again, when I go online just to check how things are going in Alberta’s power grid, and

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this is what I find: Wind, or solar, has flatlined, and battery backups are contributing precisely zero.

And what happens when, in 12.5 years, the federal government has banned the sale of internal combustion engine light vehicles, and everyone is plugging in their electric vehicles?

Banging the same drum Yes, I keep banging on this drum. Why? Because we cannot run a modern 21st century economy on a power supply that, in the middle of the day, can and does drop to less than one per cent output.

And the supposed salvation of battery backup?

In seven months, I have yet to see Alberta draw one megawatt from its 50 megawatts of battery backup.

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. But every time I do a story on wind or solar flatlining, there’s nothing coming from the batteries. It’s a life preserver that ttttttttttttttttt Vehicle Wraps never gets thrown out to the drowning grid.

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