Sundance#2 (288MW) came back online at 22:22 last night. NB Power is preparing for a rate hearing next month and as part of that process was asked to run simulations to show how much money it would save if it were not obliged to meet a variety of requirements imposed on it, mostly by the […]
Sundance#5 (406MW) came back online at 09:53; Genesee#2 (400MW) was offline from 10:17 until 16:13; Sundance#2 (288MW) came back online at 22:17 and went back offline at 23:29 all yesterday. No country in its right mind would need the premier of Alberta to explain to the federal cabinet why Canada needs pipelines to get our […]
Sundance#2 (288MW) went offline at 21:18 last night but the AESO outage report shows it should be short term. Governments in Ottawa and Alberta now seem determined to make the same mistakes as Ontario. For starters, the fiscal plan recently presented by the Trudeau government in Ottawa shares many key features with the approach to […]
The system limit on the MATL Tie Line was exceed at HE 4 this morning forcing the MATL line to zero and limiting BC imports by 232MW to 518MW – just for HE 4. The AESO short term outage forecast shows 360MW of coal generation coming back online by tomorrow. With continued low wind generation […]
The Market Surveillance Administrator is urging the Alberta Utilities Commission to ban hourly posting of spot market power price offers on the grounds it can result in jacked-up electricity prices for Albertans. The MSA is concerned that this report, which contains hourly information related to generators’ offers to supply power to the Alberta market, undermines […]
Sundance#4 (406MW) went offline at 21:32 yesterday and looks to come back online by tomorrow. Alberta governments should be careful their money doesn’t go up in smoke before investing in green industries, City of Edmonton chief economist John Rose warned Wednesday. While there are big opportunities in renewable energy, technology and programs, the province needs […]
Keephills#2 came back online at 11:47 yesterday. The B.C. Liberals have lately promoted building a new electrical transmission link to Alberta as a way to sell green power to a neighbour while attracting federal infrastructure dollars for job creation. One option had the two provinces proceeding with plans to upgrade the existing transmission link – […]
MacKay River (197MW) went offline at 16:15 Saturday and Sundance#6 (401MW) went offline from 04:12 to 17:16 Sunday; Keephills#2 went offline at 20:36 Sunday. Electricity prices haven’t been this low in Alberta in nearly 20 years, one of several developments in a very unstable and unpredictable sector in the province. The last time power prices […]
Path 83 (MATL) was out of service from 10:07 until 15:24 yesterday. Ontario Power Generation is breathing easier after the Federal Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed a judicial review of the environmental assessment of its $12.8-billion Darlington nuclear refurbishment project. OPG says the federal court found there were no gaps or errors in the 2013 […]
There is an MATL outage today from HE10 through HE 15 reducing MATL to zero and minor reductions on the BC tie line. Premier Christy Clark has ambitious plans for the copious amounts of electricity — far more than British Columbia is expected to need for more than a decade — generated by the Site […]
