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,…
The sitting Liberal government persists in “green” ideology despite energy poverty, no environmental benefit from industrial-scale wind turbines Sam Oosterhoff, MPP for Niagara-West Glanbrook, put forward a Private Member’s Bill in the Legislature…
From Parker Gallant’s Energy Perspectives, a view of how much wind power is costing Ontario. Almost a week after Premier Wynne announced her plan to reduce our electricity bills by 25%, the wind…
February 6, 2017 Last week, the wind power communications machinery was touting the virtues of the Gunn’s Hill wind power project which they claim is Ontario’s first real “community” wind power project, half-owned…
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…
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…
Wind almost 40% of exported power; cost of surplus export $437 million in just 3 months The first quarter of the current year indicates Ontario is exporting record quantities of surplus electricity. It…
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…