WATCH ABOVE: For the first time ever in Alberta, an emergency alert was issued asking people to cut back on power usage amid a dangerous cold snap to prevent rolling outages. Breanna Karstens-Smith looks at why the province saw four grid alerts in four days and what's being done to prevent another one – Jan 15, 2024“Generation is slowly coming online, and we expect conditions to return to normal by 10 a.m.”sent to your email, as it happens.
At 9:34 a.m., Epcor tweeted that “rotating outages have now stopped” after AESO ended its directive to the provider. Enmax Power tweeted that a number of Calgary neighbourhoods could see power disruptions on Friday morning On Wednesday night, AESO issued a grid alert for the province “due to unexpected generation loss.” Forty-two minutes after it announced it had issued that grid alert,Jump in unemployment rate puts Bank of Canada in a ‘tricky spot’. Here’s why“We are back into a tight supply situation this morning due to multiple generators being offline, low wind generation, and solar not yet producing any significant megawatts this morning,” Diane Kossman, a spokesperson for AESO, wrote in an email.
“On Wednesday, we had a large thermal generating unit unexpectedly drop off during evening peak, which meant we had to go into emergency reserves to meet demand and maintain system reliability.”especially for peak hours of consumption. The organization says it issues grid alerts “when the power system is under stress and we’re preparing to use emergency reserves to meet demand and maintain system reliability.