Alberta’s Power Emergency

On Saturday Jan 13 - Alberta's grid operator used the emergency system to issue the following warning:

In an interview with CBC News on Sunday, he said the emergency alert was a result of a confluence of extreme conditions.

"You had, for much of Alberta, the coldest night in 50 years, you had … a particularly acute low wind event, and last night a lack of import availability because of a lot of pressures on the Saskatchewan grid and on the B.C. grid at the same time as we were facing pressures. Add to that the unexpected outage of a gas plant. That alone puts you there," Leach said.

The province's energy grid had as little as 10 megawatts in reserve power at one point on Saturday night, according to the AESO supply demand report.

Fortunately rolling black outs during the coldest night in decades was avoided. However because nobody died, and serious property damage was avoided, the clear warning this event should provide will likely be ignored. Politicians are now our engineers, designing our cars, power plants and distribution grids. Never mind they have zero understanding how their purely ideologically driven designs will perform in the real world.

Friday January 12th that “Just before sunrise in Edmonton, temperatures hit lows of –37C (-34.6F), breaking a daily record of –32 (-25F) set in 1998.”

And it got colder.

On Friday night going into Saturday (13th) at Edmonton International Airport, temperatures dropped to -45C (-49F) by 10pm

In many parts of the province, it was the coldest day in 50 years. And much like the 2021 power crisis in Texas, renewable energy was not producing. Winds (thankfully) were down to a very light breeze but well below the speed that a wind turbine needs to produce electricity. Of the 12,000 Mw of electricity consumed that day, wind farms only produced 14 Mw or .0011% of demand.

This is after decades of construction and billions in subsidies? This why it's marketed as renewable energy, it's not at all reliable.

Net Zero is not just bad policy, it's a suicide pact. It would kill people in their homes. It would lead to the mass de-industrialization. Joanne Nova points out the example of Australia's power grid:

Australia is in a unique position, its rarely cool there, much less cold. A rolling black out would be an annoyance, an excuse to eat all the ice cream out of the freezer... But in Canada, on day like that? There would be deaths.

The media is critical of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for complaining about Net Zero grid regulations Trudeau demands to be implemented by 2035. The media pretend exasperation that the Premier Smith is complaining about regulations that havent been enforced yet... Complaining afterwards would cost lives.

This was a warning. Take heed. Net Zero is death.