Southeast Alberta Chamber of Commerce’s Post

On August 16th, the Southeast Alberta Chamber of Commerce was hosted by BHE Canada for an overview of both wind and natural gas power generation. 🍃 We had a briefing on the operations, followed by a tour of the 130 MW Rattlesnake Ridge Windfarm near Whitla. After breaking ground 2020, the windfarm was fully commissioned in 2022 and has now been in service for two years. Each of the 26 turbines generates up to 5MW of power with each 71 m blade weighing in at 26 tonnes 😮. For those wondering, an average home would use about 600kWh of power per month with the turbines on this windfarm generating enough energy to supply 78,000 homes. The turbines can generate power with winds as low as three metres per second (about 10 km/h), coming a long way since the first turbines were first built in Alberta in the early 90s. The excellence demonstrated at this facility has made the Rattlesnake Ridge Windfarm a training site for the manufacturer Siemens, bringing trainees and further economic impact to the region. ⚡ Following the windfarm tour, we travelled to the NAT-1 Gas Plant to see BHE Canada’s 20 MW Peaker Plant, which was built in 2016. The plant contains ten 2-MW Cummins engines, capable of coming online when the demand for electricity is high, to help provide reliable energy quickly and seamlessly. 💡 We were pleased to learn about power production and how energy producers work within the Alberta pooled energy market to get power onto the grid and into our homes and businesses. You can find out more about the current supply-demand in Alberta here: https://lnkd.in/dJXAcyt along with the AESO Transmission Capability map here: https://lnkd.in/gZuwjQ7a Find out more about BHE Canada and their presence in Southeast Alberta here: https://lnkd.in/guWDrcG4

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Aaron Fleming

Commercial Account Executive at Western Financial Group

2mo

Thanks for the invite - great tour!

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