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Drawing down on irony, or, the proper way of campaigning for clean air: comparing two books on how to make our air cleaner

by Stephen E. Aplin • May 25, 2017 • 3 Comments

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Green energy and the Toronto Heat Island: now is the winter of our disconnect made sweltering summer

by Stephen E. Aplin • March 21, 2017 • 7 Comments

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…

Why the Ontario government continues to endorse, and make ratepayers cover, bad cheques

by Stephen E. Aplin • March 10, 2017 • 4 Comments

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Candlepower for freezing Alberta: picking the certain losers

by Stephen E. Aplin • March 5, 2017 • 5 Comments

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TorStar inadvertently hamfists a headline that’s true: they had it right the first time, no one can’t (you read that right, CAN’T) make electricity cheap again

by Stephen E. Aplin • February 23, 2017 • 2 Comments

Scott Luft beat me to it, but I cannot let the irony behind a hilarious (possible) typo in today’s Toronto Star pass without my own comment. The Star published an op-ed originally and possibly inadvertently entitled “No one can’t make…

Global adjustment smokescreen: it works

by Stephen E. Aplin • February 13, 2017 • 13 Comments

I’m surprised it took so long for the Ontario government to wave out some kind of “fix” to the Global Adjustment as a solution to high electricity prices. Nobody has any idea what the GA is, let alone what it…

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Table A1: Total Ontario generation, and related CO₂ emissions, in hour preceding 12:05 EST on Jul 23 2017
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	10,921	0
Hydro	4,395	0
Gas	353	135
Wind	372	0
Biofuel	0	0
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	1,956	0
TOTAL	17,997	135
CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 8.34 grams.


Table A2: Total Ontario generation, and related CO₂ emissions, midnight to 12:05 EST on Jul 23 2017
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	141,639	0
Hydro	42,920	0
Gas	3,052	1,174
Wind	5,092	0
Biofuel	1	1
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	7,546	0
TOTAL	193,464	1,175
Average CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 6.05 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
135	6,142
8.34	379.18
Tons CO₂ CIPK, grams If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO₂ to fill Rogers Centre 2.1 times. As it was, 135 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.0 times.