In short, just paying and paying. Parker Gallant reviews the first five months in the electricity sector in Ontario, and asks what new Energy Minister Thibeault will do about the impact of the province’s…
Ontario continues its buy-high, sell-low policy for electricity by wasting cheap hydro in favour of expensive, intermittent wind. And the government is contracting for more, says Parker Gallant. Ontario Power Generation or OPG…
Ontario, you just can’t win, says Parker Gallant One would think that recent revelations such as from Germany where it was stated “Wind Farms Paid €500 million-a-year-to-stand-idle” and China where they have put…
In an effort to determine what track Energy Minister Chiarelli’s electric train is on I took a brief look at his ministerial forecast, “Achieving Balance”. My interest was piqued by a recent article…
WEEKEND READING April 2, 2016 We present a collection of stories that review the manner in which strategies that are supposedly positive for the environment have been enacted (usually without any sort of…
IESO just released their January 2016 Monthly Market Report with details on electricity generated and demanded, along with prices and impact on ratepayers. It is interesting to compare January 2016 with January 2015…
Ontario gives away $4.5 billion ratepayer dollars; persists in directive to add more wind and solar The GA or Global Adjustment first made its appearance on IESO’s Monthly Market Report in January 2007.…
Adding more power from wind at this point only benefits our U.S. neighbours, not Ontario citizens It was a “WOW” headline for Cleantech Canada on their website: “180 megawatt Armow Wind project comes…
OPINION Parker Gallant: recent pet peeves Recently a number of issues from ruminations of Premier Kathleen Wynne and her appointed Ministers have driven me to distraction. Couple those ruminations with the partial privatization…
Wind power: unreliable, and costly Robert Hornung, president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), frequently uses the word “reliable” when expounding on the purported benefits of generating power from wind. Here are…
The OEB hides the truth on rate increases The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) reported their semi-annual bad news via the News Release that always contains depressing announcements about upcoming rate increases. Couched in…