Your part of the country is looking pretty good going into winter. Are your cows still able to find their own feed?
JF Ranch said:
I see plenty of wind energy close by. Is it cheap and reliable?
Here in southern Ontario there is no issue that has proven more divisive than wind energy. The power of decision making about their location and installation was taken away from local municipalities and embedded in the provincial government (Liberal :roll: ).
As for cheap - the companies (i.e.-Suncor) who own them are paid extremely generous government subsidies (3 - 4X retail rates) for their production.
As for reliable - here they operate at about 30% efficiency and are, of course, unpredictable as the wind, so to speak. In order to offset the intermittent power they generate, the conventional generating systems (NG, coal, nuke) have to slow down and ramp up generation to accommodate the surges and drops that are the trademark of wind energy.
Hopefully, Saskatchewan does a better job.