Canadian Energy Issues

Get ready for a wave of springtime electricity disconnections, now that the Ontario government has publicly warned the province’s 71 local electricity distribution companies against disconnecting delinquent customers in winter. (The warning was a neat little PR trick, in that…

Table A1: Total Ontario generation and related CO₂, by fuel, in the hour preceding 23:05 on 2017-09-20
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	9,137	0
Hydro	3,087	0
Gas	1,649	649
Wind	1,186	0
Biofuel	74	74
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	89	0
TOTAL	15,222	723
CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 48.17 grams.

Table A2: Total Ontario generation and related CO₂, by fuel, on 2017-09-20
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	209,612	0
Hydro	87,764	0
Gas	66,476	25,075
Wind	12,088	0
Biofuel	1589	1589
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	21,376	0
TOTAL	379,682	26,664
Average CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 67.33 grams

Actual Ontario grid	Gas replaces nuclear
723	5,748
48.17	382.97
Tons CO₂ CIPK, grams If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO₂ to fill Rogers Centre 2.0 times. As it was, 723 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.3 times.

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