Finally, some electricity price relief, to come perhaps in a few years. The Ontario government announced last week it was abandoning plans to expand wind and solar capacity expansions it had written into its most recent energy plan. But energy…
Category: Electricity
How much does it cost to not dump carbon dioxide into our air? an extreme cautionary tale from Ontario
In 2003 a new Ontario government came into power on a pledge to, among other things, eliminate coal from the provincial electricity generation mix. This was for health and environmental reasons. While the health reasons were long on syrupy think-of-the-children…
August 2016: the most expensive month in Ontario’s electrical history
August 2016 likely was a record hot month in Toronto, says Environment Canada. It was a record setter on another related front: electricity prices. I predict that when the data is officially out, Ontarians will have paid over $1.27 billion…
The “dirty bomb” and other bogeymen: why German electricity keeps getting dirtier
We are being bombarded these days with earnest sermons from political pulpits regarding fear and whether it is something we should base decisions on when we, say, go to exercise our democratic franchise and vote. I am always wary of…
First Ontario, now Alberta: the march of the rent seekers
Next time you go to charge your smart phone battery, mark down the time you plug the charger in and the time the battery charge indicator tells you the battery is once again full. If you don’t feel like going…