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Originally Posted by DoubleK
There is a major milestone on the horizon. On August 1, Whitla 2 comes online with an additional 151 MW of wind generation.
That will push the total installed capacity over 2,000 MW to 2,139 MW.
For context the all-time record peak load for the City of Calgary is 1,723 MW.
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That's a theoretical number....
As of 1010am today, theoretical maximum production is 1988 MW, but current actual generation is 252 MW. This highlights the struggle of matching supply, demand, and production capacity. Other modes of energy production are also shown on the following link:
http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market...DReportServlet
Here is a link to a specific wind farm. If you scale it for "All" timeframes of production you can see the highly variable nature of energy supply. The 3-year capacity factor (ie average loading) is ~34%.
https://www.dispatcho.app/live/CRR1?r=90960900
Here's the link to the Whitla #1 farm.. with better capacity factor of ~45% over 3yrs:
https://www.dispatcho.app/live/WHT1