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Nordstream 2: the avoidable kicker in geopolitics

by Stephen E. Aplin • February 24, 2022 • 1 Comment

Berlin Airlift, 1949: the Number One commodity flown into Berlin during that iconic early Cold War confrontation was coal. At its height, the airlift transported 5,000 tons of “commodities” per day, two thirds of which were coal. The operation began…

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The Texas Debacle: a crisis worse than Covid

by Stephen E. Aplin • March 28, 2021 • 1 Comment

In the early hours of Monday February 15 2021, the US state of Texas suddenly became two things it had never been before. First, it became a winter electricity peak jurisdiction. In every year of the state’s electrical history following…

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Solar PV, CO2 avoidance, and magic wands: attractive packaging and misleading advertising

by Stephen E. Aplin • July 23, 2020 • 6 Comments

The International Energy Agency’s Integrated Smart Grid Action Network—what does just the title of the organization say? To me, a cynical pro-nuke climate hawk, it connotes exactly the type of bureaucracy that is simultaneously useful and frustrating. Useful because it…

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Wind power in Ontario, June 2019: Dances with… Hydro

by Stephen E. Aplin • June 18, 2020 • 6 Comments

Last time I noted the operation of one particular Ontario gas-fired generating plant in relation with provincial electrical demand, total in-province generation, “market” price, and aggregate wind output. I showed that although through the month of June 2019 total generation…

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Did wind-generated electricity displace gas-generated electricity in Ontario in June 2019?

by Stephen E. Aplin • May 26, 2020 • 1 Comment

Financiers of green energy projects often claim in public filings that the energy generated by the projects they have financed has avoided some definite number of tons of CO2 emissions. Run the numbers, and you usually find they have assumed…

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“E” vs “SG” in ethical investing: how sustainable is mollification-by-cherrypicking

by Stephen E. Aplin • April 11, 2020 • 7 Comments

In the great game of whack-a-mole that is capital raising in Canada’s oil patch, it must be frustrating, for those whose full-time job when there isn’t a global pandemic is whacking the moles of ESG criteria on which they feel…

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Item A1 Current concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere:
0.00 parts per million
In the last hour:
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 57 % of total electrical power generated in-province.
  • 78.9 % of Ontario-generated electricity was carbon-free.
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 72.2 % of Ontario's carbon-free electricity.
Table A1: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, in hour preceding 11:05 EST on Aug 16 2022
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 10,292 0
Hydro 3,768 0
Gas 3,488 1,079
Wind 221 0
Biofuel 30 30
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 2,929 0
TOTAL 20,727 1,121
CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 62.04 grams.
Table A2: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, midnight to 11:05 EST on Aug 16 2022
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 123,289 0
Hydro 40,044 0
Gas 19,010 5,380
Wind 9,106 0
Biofuel 289 289
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 9,075 0
TOTAL 192,652 5,813
Average CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 28.72 grams
This content is updated at 50 minutes past the hour. Refresh at that time to see latest available data. Sources: www.ieso.ca and EmissionTrak™
Table A3 Should we replace nuclear plants with natural gas-fired ones? This table compares actual Ontario grid CO2 emissions from the last hour with those from a grid in which gas has replaced nuclear.
Actual Ontario grid Gas replaces nuclear
1,121 6,782
62.04 375.32
Tons CO2
CIPK, grams
If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO2 to fill Rogers Centre 2.4 times. As it was, 1,121 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.4 times.

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