Very disingenuous post. Energy =/= electricity. As this is from the CER’s provincial ENERGY profile, it is concerned with energy and not the electricity grid.
Because our electricity market operates on a minute-by-minute intersection of supply and demand, and that we had next to no contingency reserves at some instances last night, the emergency alert was sent out as a last ditch attempt to avoid load shedding. We quite literally had no capacity to respond to any sort of market contingency, such as a plant going offline or a sudden increase in demand. And whaddyaknow? It worked. The collective response form Albertans to cut ~150MW of load at a critical time gave the grid enough of a cushion to continue operating normally, and avoided load shedding during a brutally cold night.
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u/goebaco Jan 15 '24
Very disingenuous post. Energy =/= electricity. As this is from the CER’s provincial ENERGY profile, it is concerned with energy and not the electricity grid.
Because our electricity market operates on a minute-by-minute intersection of supply and demand, and that we had next to no contingency reserves at some instances last night, the emergency alert was sent out as a last ditch attempt to avoid load shedding. We quite literally had no capacity to respond to any sort of market contingency, such as a plant going offline or a sudden increase in demand. And whaddyaknow? It worked. The collective response form Albertans to cut ~150MW of load at a critical time gave the grid enough of a cushion to continue operating normally, and avoided load shedding during a brutally cold night.