Or by time of day....today for example.
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The graph goes back to November 2018, and if you look at the daily or weekly solar numbers you can see how much it's increased since then. In general it's increased from ~3-4MW peak each day in November 2018 to ~250MW peak each day in November 2021. With all these new projects coming on board, those numbers will keep going up.
DougB
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This data illustrates why the transition to renewables will be so expensive: need to over build wind and solar while still providing 100% gas fired backstop.
Beltline_B
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More-so, the data illustrates that solar energy is booming. Going from 4mw to 250mw 3 years later. With all of the projects that are coming on line in the next couple of years that number will be quadrupled. It's not cheap, however it's obviously doable. Wind hasn't increased as dramatically, but is also increasing.
Golfing guy
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Where are all solar panels manufactured?
Cowtown
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My guess, and it's only a guess would be that they're made in China, but there are a couple of places in Canada where panels are manufactured. Most other countries have solar panel manufactuerers as well.
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DougB
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The report is semi-real time, meaning it updates to recent generation statistics. The snapshot you posted above would hace been at a point in time when solar was at zero and wind at less that 25% of its nameplate.
Cowtown
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Alberta announces close to $50M funding for 23 clean technology projects
The province announced nearly $50 million in funding Wednesday to be designated towards 23 projects that advance clean energy innovation.
Alberta announces close to $50M funding for 23 clean technology projects
ByeByeBaby
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This site is super cool, thanks! I was just playing around with it, and it looks like this will be the second year in a row we will generate more solar power in December than we did in the July 18 months previously; in July 2019 we generated 4MW solar most days and in Dec 2020 it was usually 6-8 MW; in July 2020 we generated 25-28 MW of solar and that's about what we've been generating this November so far. Not sure this trend will keep up for many more years, but it's exciting. Just like the fact that 2019 was the first year that there were more new hybrid/electric vehicles sold in Canada than diesel ones.
Cowtown
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I believe the solar trend will continue so more for a while, and could really explode depending on advances in storage. Southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan are the best places in Canada for solar power based on sunlight hours\efficiency. If there's any place in Canada to invest in solar it's here.
It is a pretty cool site. Really gives good insight to the scale of different generation methods.
DougB
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Too bad AB is so far off the equator. Solar will always require extensive backstop in the winter due to short hours of daylight. No amount of storage will ever surmount that obstacle, as it would need to support weeks of demand rather than hours.
adamyyc
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Bifacial solar panels do help to close the gap somewhat in the winter.
darwink
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Lot of time to solve issues. For a solar backed grid, every % eeked out in capacity factor for a winter day from the current ~5% reduces needed storage by a lot. As does multi-day optional load shedding.
DougB
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Load shedding isn’t that feasible for consecutive days as few large industrial consumers would be willing to reduce consumption for long periods.