Alberta’s 4,481 Megawatts of Wind Power Produced Only 3 MW Monday Night, 2 Tuesday Morning

Commentary Where are we going? Lower! That was the trend for wind power production in Alberta on Monday, Feb. 5, as the 4,481 megawatts of nameplate wind power generation capacity fell to just three megawatts output. That’s less than 0.1 percent, or less than 1 one-thousandth of nameplate capacity. If you want to get really technical, it’s actually 0.07 percent, or 7 ten-thousandths of nameplate capacity. That’s according to minute-by-minute data from the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO). Effectively, it was just about zero. Or put another way, the hundreds of turbines across Alberta’s 45 wind farms costing billions of dollars collectively were producing less power than a singular Caterpillar 3612 diesel generator is capable of....