What a month of Alberta's electrical mix shows: enormous variability backed up by natural gas

What a month of Alberta's electrical mix shows: enormous variability backed up by natural gas

Alberta has one of the most dynamic electrical grids in the country, in large part because it’s a deregulated grid. That means that independent power producers can sell power into the grid, and they have in turn chosen a wide variety of power generation method. From natural gas to solar, wind to hydro, biomass to batteries, Alberta’s got pretty much everything except coal and nuclear. And that mix changes by the minute, depending on the weather,…