Selling off surplus power: Loss, loss, and more losses Ontario was once again busy exporting surplus power on the weekend of October 17-19. For every MWh (megawatt hour) we exported, we generated revenue…
Magic tricks: how the OEB explains electricity bill increases The Ontario Energy Board’s (OEB) news release of October 16, 2014 tells us that our rates will once again increase on November 1, 2014,…
Blowing Ontario’s ratepayer dollars Money lost in just one week could have paid for 580 nurses So far this October, Ontario’s electricity sector has been blowing our money away at an awesome pace.…
The 2,483 MW of rated capacity of wind generators reported by Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) in the past three days (October 6 to 8) generated 67,000 MWh (megawatt hours), or enough…
Here a commentary from Ottawa-based energy economist, Robert Lyman: In May 2014, the Fraser Institute, based in British Columbia, published a report authored by Professor Ross McKitrick and PhD candidate Elmira Aliakbari of…
Conservation is a MUSH[y] subject in Ontario My recent article about “conservation” provided some detail on the presumed consumption of electricity in 2013 by the 4.6 million residential ratepayers in the province. The…
Ontario’s cleanest day: too bad it cost you The heading on Cold Air energy blogger Scott Luft‘s article read: “September 20th: Ontario electricity’s cleanest day in my lifetime.” He was talking about the…
A Liberal cost/benefit plan or, how to “plan” to spend $4.7 billion ratepayer dollars Give Energy Minister, Bob Chiarelli a nice pie (chart) and he will be happy. He gave his blessing to…
The September 10, 2014 press release from the Ontario didn’t quite put it the way this headline does, but if you look behind the PR slogan, “A New Era of Cleaner Air…
Wind turbine woes September 2014, Farmers Forum Farmers Forum surveyed a big chunk of Wolfe Island residents and found that 75 per cent approve of or are indifferent toward the 86 wind turbines…