Opinion: Lessons from an Alberta power market on the brink
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Jonathan Wilkinson has said that assembling the clean electricity grid of the future is a “nation-building project akin to the building of the railway.” The comparison suggests both the importance of the work and the effort that will be required to complete it.
Rotating power outages were narrowly avoided during a cold snap in Alberta this weekend, but one expert says new power sources coming online this year will help ease the strain.
As Albertans woke to another day of deep cold temperatures, the province's electric system operator had yet another grid alert in place, warning of a teetering power supply.
Following grid alerts, AESO's head thinks we’re “through the worst of it” as temperatures moderate and more power generation is available.