My most recent posts on this blog have played on the theme of clean, cheap electricity as an environmental and societal benefit. Using the Electric Power Carbon-Price Matrix, I have compared electricity systems using the criteria of carbon emissions and…
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Nuclear Renaissance gathers momentum across globe: fight carbon, the smart way
“This report of my death was an exaggeration.” So said Mark Twain in 1897. He died in 1910. And so said nuclear power in 2014. But though, like Twain in 1897, nuclear power today is in its early sixties, don’t…
The low price of reliable electricity
Power prices in Ontario are on a steady upward climb, and if you think they’re bad now just wait. You’ll soon look back at February 2014 as the good old days. Ontario continues to add wind farms to the grid—the…
Disbelief, disarray in Ontario anti-nuclear circles as pension fund announces intention to increase share in nuclear power plant
Less than a week ago, the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System (OMERS), a pension plan, announced it will increase its share in Bruce Power. Bruce Power is a partnership that runs the Bruce nuclear plant, the biggest clean energy producer…
Two carbon-reduction paths diverge in the European policy wood: United Kingdom takes less traveled, more interesting one
Germany’s much-touted and -admired route to carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions has, predictably, proved to be an embarrassing and expensive failure. The bubble chart represents electricity data from 2010. As you can see, German electricity was, kilowatt-hour for kilowatt-hour, the second-dirtiest…