Wind Power – Not Reliable Enough for Alberta

Yet another one of those highly touted technologies that is to keep the earth from turning into a crispy critter turns out to not be reliable enough – even for Canadians:

Alberta power utility Enmax Corp. said yesterday it is building a huge new power station in Southern Alberta fired with natural gas, partly to help boost the provincial grid’s reliability after Alberta’s aggressive expansion into wind energy made it vulnerable to power disruption.

“We now have so much windpower generation that we need to fall back on reliable sources of power,” said Peter Hunt, an Enmax spokesman.

“The problem with wind power is that the wind doesn’t blow all the time, so the greater percentage of the system depends on wind, the more vulnerable to disruption the system becomes when the wind stops blowing.”

Stop the Presses! The wind doesn’t blow all the time? Has anyone told Algore?  The fact that they need to say this says a ton about how clearly uninformed most people are regarding renewal energy.