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 emissions, in hour preceding 15:05 EST on Aug 18 2017
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	10,894	0
Hydro	4,397	0
Gas	1,130	444
Wind	2,781	0
Biofuel	198	199
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	1,340	0
TOTAL	20,740	643
CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 33.44 grams.

Table A2: Total Ontario generation, and related CO₂ emissions, midnight to 15:05 EST on Aug 18 2017
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	174,713	0
Hydro	54,271	0
Gas	9,223	3,691
Wind	30,102	0
Biofuel	1604	1611
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	11,587	0
TOTAL	271,080	5,302
Average CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 18.56 grams

Actual Ontario grid	Gas replaces nuclear
643	6,635
33.44	345.09
Tons CO₂ CIPK, grams If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO₂ to fill Rogers Centre 2.3 times. As it was, 643 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.2 times.

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