When demand for electricity and heating were at their highest, wind and solar production were at their lowest –Stephen Aplin, Canadian Energy Issues January 6, 2018 Ottawa-based energy analyst Stephen Aplin has…
How badly were ratepayers hit? Millions upon millions for power produced out of phase with demand… While the Canadian Wind Energy Association, the trade association for the wind power industry and vested interests,…
September 11, 2016 Now 111 municipalities in Ontario have either passed or formally endorsed a resolution at Council, demanding that municipal support be a mandatory requirement for contracts in the Wynne government’s next…
August 29, 2016 The Windlectric wind power project on tiny Amherst Island has no hope of meeting its “drop-dead” Commercial Operation date, so Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) can cancel the Feed…
There is so much mythology now around Ontario’s coal plants for power generation, it really is time to set the record straight on what really happened, how much it cost, and what was…
Revisiting former energy minister George Smitherman’s claim Ontario’s Green Energy Act would only cost 1 % a year. He was off a bit. Shortly after former Energy Minister, George Smitherman introduced Bill 150,…
Ontario ratepayer fatigue: covering the costs of bargain basement sale of surplus power from wind and solar When will it end? Another month goes by and another $168 million from Ontario ratepayer’s pockets…
Peasants in the Middle Ages: we’re getting there On March 26, 2015, one day before release of the “Sunshine List”, Ontario’s Minister of Energy Bob Chiarelli announced the province has “low-income” electricity consumers…
As if skyrocketing power rates, due in part to “renewables” like wind, wasn’t enough, billing system woes continue at Ontario’s power monopoly Hydro One, despite promises to fix the situation. Here is an…
Happy New Year New York and Michigan! Once again Ontario’s oh so generous ratepayers, ushered in the New Year by treating our neighbours to some very cheap electricity. We were much nicer this…
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.…