{"id":264997,"date":"2023-07-02T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264997"},"modified":"2023-07-02T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:29:23","slug":"american-and-canadian-prairies-suffer-calm-weather-wind-power-wipe-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264997","title":{"rendered":"American and Canadian Prairies Suffer Calm Weather Wind Power\u00a0Wipe-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From STOP THESE THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a reason that windmills were abandoned in the 19th<\/sup> century: it\u2019s called \u201cthe wind\u201d. And it\u2019s why anyone serious about power generation, never takes wind power seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sailors and kite flyers know everything there is to know about long bursts of calm weather. However, naturally occurring meteorological phenomenon comes as news to the wind industry, which now curses these events as \u201cwind droughts\u201d \u2013 as if there was some kind of grand conspiracy afoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time the weather is doing its dastardly worst across the American and Canadian Prairies, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collapse of wind power across prairies and central U.S. on Wednesday morning<\/strong>
True North
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Wind power generation dwindled to a near standstill<\/a> across Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and even deep into the central United States on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the outlet Pipeline Online, major wind farms ranging across Alberta to Saskatchewan and down south to New Mexico and Texas fell to near-zero levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data from the Southwest Power Poll (SPP) which reports power generation from grids in Canada and the US shows that for several hours, wind power reached a new low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind Power generation for the SPP only contributed a meagre 1.1% to the total electricity output on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, 40.8% of the power generated in the region was a result of coal power, while natural gas took the lion\u2019s share of 48.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas wind farms only produced a total of 377 megawatts of electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, demand from the SPP bulged to 34,302 megawatts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many wind farms across the SPP reported no wind with border-town stations in Crosby, North Dakota reporting only 2 miles per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Alberta, wind power only generated 123 megawatts of electricity, totalling 3.4% of the capacity of Alberta\u2019s 36 wind farms. Out of all of the wind farms, a majority, or 26 stations, were producing zero electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first time renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy have dwindled to near-zero levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early April, Alberta energy grid data showed that both solar and wind farms fell to less than 1%<\/a> of their total energy capacity one early Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt this point, the business case behind using solar and wind power is often very weak because these two sources of power are often unreliable \u2013 the sun doesn\u2019t always shine and the wind doesn\u2019t always blow,\u201d said SecondStreet.org president Colin Craig at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the Saskatchewan government\u2019 is looking at solar and wind power to reduce emissions, then building more ties with Manitoba might make sense as the latter has access to relatively clean hydro power.\u201d
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Maybe tomorrow \u2026 or next week, who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a reason that windmills were abandoned in the 19th\u00a0century: it\u2019s called \u201cthe wind\u201d. 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