When you look at packed audience halls at a nuclear industry convention, you know there is activity in the industry. Last week’s Canadian Nuclear Association annual conference and trade show was very well attended, and not just by the Ontario…
Category: Ontario Power Generation
What is the true value of reliable electricity? Ask someone who is about to be reconnected after a blackout
I have been part of a very interesting listserv discussion lately, on the value of reliable electricity. As I pointed out last article, in Ontario we have a topsy-turvy system for pricing electricity: we pay the least efficient and least-reliable…
Smoke-free at both ends: Toronto subway and its main power source are fighting carbon, possibly winning
Toronto’s subway trains carry thousands of passengers every hour through underground tunnels. This would be extremely difficult to accomplish if the traction power hurling the trains across the east-west line and up and down the north-south lines under the city…
Exporting low carbon electricity infrastructure: what Canada can do for the world
In the economic boom of the 1950s, Canada made a strategic gamble on its industrial future: it invested in developing the CANDU nuclear reactor. The CANDU was invented as a conscious decision to differentiate a product from its competition. Why…
Canada’s carbon reductions: giving credit where it’s due
Last week’s minor bombshell pre-announcement from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that mankind, though carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuel, is very likely to have played a role in jacking up global temperatures, caused a…