Does one megawatt of coal fired electricity = one megawatt of wind powered electricty?

Here in the province of Alberta that is sitting on a coal bed 6' thick and a huge natural gas reserve the idea has been to replace coal and gas fired electricity with wind powered. So far 29 windfarms are scattered across the province. The other day the entire province was calm. The electrical output was 0.3% of capacity. Good thing we have good neighbours who are willing to sell us electricity.

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turbineman40 · 80-89, M

I think a megawatt of electricity doesn't care how it was created by coal, natural gas or a wind farm. You the consumer just want electricity to run your house and make sure your life is good. It just takes hundreds of acres and hundreds of acres of wind turbines to generate the electricity of iust one gas or steam powered turbine. Tell us again how much electricity was created by wind turbines when the wind doesn't blow?
From a person who works on gas and steam powered turbines

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@turbineman40 I drove through the windfarm near my home town. It was very cold out and the windmills were all standing still. Not a blade was turning anywhere in sight. On the horizon I could see a little steam plume. It was the gas fired power plant generating all the electricity the windmills were not generating. A day later the gas plant was shut down when a compressor failed and the plant ran out of gas. Fortunately there was a coal fired generator that was able to pick up the slack. The oldest plant and technology saved the day.