Let's go GREEN.....and freeze to death lolAt 10:45 p.m. MST on Wednesday, Jan. 5, Albertas wind and solar power generation was producing next to zero megawatts to the grid, according the the Alberta Electric System Operator. The province has an installed based of 2,269 megawatts of wind power generation, and 736 megawatts of solar, for a total of 3,005 megawatts. And at that moment, wind and solar combined were producing 0.1 per cent of their total rated capacity, or one-tenth of one per cent of their combined rating. Solar was producing zero, as usual, since the sun doesnt shine at night. But wind generation was down to just three megawatts between 26 wind facilities across the province. Only three wind facilities were producing any power at all. Blackspring Ridge, 50 kilometres north of Lethbridge, has a rated capacity of 300 megawatts, but it was producing one megawatt. Near Drumheller, Wintering Hills, with 88 megawatts capacity, was producing one megawatt. Ghost Pine, east of Innisfail, was also producing one megawatt out of a rated capacity of 82. The remaining 23 wind facilities had zeros across the board.