There is a lot of money at stake, as Ontario opens up to contracts for Battery Energy Storage Systems Small Battery Storage facility operated by Shell November 14, 2023 As of today, there…
Ottawa-based energy economist Robert Lyman has provided this summary of a recent paper on energy subsidies in the United States. December 12, 2016 The Energy “Subsidy” Debate – Some Additional Fuel for the…
Subsidies mask the real cost of producing electricity from wind, says a recent U.S. report The wind power lobby is currently putting forward the idea that generation of electricity from wind energy is actually…
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…
WEEKEND READING Ontario’s Green Energy Act was put forward as a means of securing a “green” economy and producing job growth in “clean tech.” Did that happen? Ottawa energy economist Robert Lyman lays…
Ottawa energy economist Robert Lyman has responded to an advertising campaign in that city about how conservation efforts are paying off for consumers. Not so, he says. “How about some truth in advertising?…
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…
Here from Ottawa-based energy economist Robert Lyman, a summary of the “hidden” costs of generating electric power from renewable sources…what the government has done over the past five years. THE HIDDEN COSTS OF…