If you’re over 60 chances are you were raised to extinguish lamps like they were huge money pits.
Optimistic to say 1.5m people had two extra lights on. Or, am I wrong?
As @OVERKILL pointed out the fleet of windmills pooped their pants in the -30 to -40 C weather and was a direct reason for the Emergency Alert. Meanwhile, Alberta’s last coal plant hummed along quite nicely, than you very much.
On an all-in basis including storage & transmission, the average cost per megawatt-hour for natural gas is $38; nuclear $114; wind $291-504; for solar $413-1,548.
