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,…
Wind power contracts a factor in highest rising bills in North America The Canadian Association of Retired Persons or CARP has created a “Heat or Eat” campaign designed to focus on the plight…
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,…
Former Finance and Energy Minister Dwight Duncan offers his opinion on Ontario’s debt and how it got to be so significant. He should know: a lot of it is his fault, including long-term…
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…
More from Parker Gallant on the pesky goings-on in Ontario’s power system. Oxymorons and the Ministries of the Environment and Climate Change & Natural Resources Renewable Energy Approvals (REA) for wind turbine…
In this, the last week of August and leading up to the Labour Day holiday weekend, Parker Gallant takes a look back a few things about Ontario’s power sector that have been bugging…