Unreliable wind energy
The unreliability of those industrial wind turbines (IWT), touted as a key ingredient to save the world from “global warming” by eco-warriors and obtuse politicians, once again demonstrated their uselessness!
Here in Ontario on December 28, 2021, at 4 AM (the middle of the night) they were cranking out power (when demand was low) generating 69.4% (3,072 MWh) of their rated capacity, but by 4 PM when demand was much higher, their output was a miserly 1.5% (65 MWh) of their rated capacity.
To add further context to the foregoing, at 4 AM IWT was generating about 22% of total Ontario demand but by 4 PM when demand was much higher those IWT were generating 0.004% of Ontario’s demand.
IWTs bad reliability habit means our grid operator, IESO, has a much more complex system to operate with a transmission grid connecting all of those IWT and requiring gas plants to remain “at the ready” when the wind dies down or picks up.
Those manipulations add costs to our electricity system thereby helping to create energy poverty by driving up the per kWh (kilowatt-hour) costs for households.
It also serves to drive our manufacturing companies to other provinces and U.S.A. states with lower electricity prices meaning job losses are one of the outcomes.
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The Biden administration appears to be bitterly clinging to this failed energy apparatus. This is just the latest example of its unreliability. If usually fails when it is needed the most.
See, also:
Colorado Survivors Of Massive Fire Hear Biden Brag About ‘Windmills’ With ‘100-Yard Wingspans’
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