Alerts demonstrate why flexibility is needed in Ottawa’s Clean Energy Regulations to decarbonize the country’s electricity grids, according to energy and environmental economist Andrew Leach.
Alerts demonstrate why flexibility is needed in Ottawa’s Clean Energy Regulations to decarbonize the country’s electricity grids, according to energy and environmental economist Andrew Leach.
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The Alberta Emergency Management Agency (AEMA) urged Albertans to turn off unnecessary lights, avoid cooking with a stove and delay charging electric vehicles.
Shortly after the alert was issued, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe put out a tweet, saying his province was providing 153 megawatts of power to Alberta to help them during the shortage.
“That power will be coming from natural gas and coal-fired plants, the ones the Trudeau government is telling us to shut down (which we won’t),” Moe wrote.
He says just because other markets in the U.S. and Canada can make this switch to largely renewable systems without risking grid reliability, that doesn’t mean that Alberta and Saskatchewan are being too pro-fossil fuel when they push back.
AESO’s Leif Sollid said immediately after Saturday’s emergency alert was issued, people in the system control room could see a drop in power demand.
"It’s simple things… things like not running your dishwasher, not doing laundry, not plugging in your car, putting your block heater on a timer so it’s drawing power outside of that 4 to 7 p.m. window.
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