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Ontario sleepwalking into more expensive electricity, more air pollution

by Stephen E. Aplin • February 6, 2018 • 12 Comments

In 3 short months, Ontarians will have the opportunity to participate in a public hearing on the future of the Pickering nuclear station. It is a very important hearing, and everyone who can participate should. Briefly, the upshot of the…

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A pleasantly surprising, and new, long player: welcome to nuclear power, Brookfield

by Stephen E. Aplin • January 16, 2018 • 2 Comments

After years of enduring tiresome greenwash-laden press releases about wind and solar power from rentseeking billion dollar companies like Berkshire Hathaway, Loblaw, and Tesla, I was refreshed and encouraged to see Brookfield Business Partners, a subsidiary of Canadian Brookfield Asset…

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Renewable energy in the Ontario cold snap: a technicolour dream, debunked in grayscale

by Stephen E. Aplin • January 4, 2018 • 28 Comments

Much of North America was in a deep freeze as 2017 waned and turned into 2018. Across Ontario temperatures two hours from midnight on New Year’s Eve in the relatively populated “south” part of the province ranged from minus 31…

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The “green” grocer’s lucrative side-business: Merry Christmas, low-income Ontarians

by Stephen E. Aplin • December 20, 2017 • 12 Comments

As we all head into the allegedly merriest but unquestionably darkest part of the northern hemisphere year, it might be instructive to read, critically, between the lines and past the buzzwords, the self-congratulatory (and effective) 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Report…

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Ottawa Food Bank: does cold weather + high electricity prices = new clients?

by Stephen E. Aplin • December 13, 2017 • 5 Comments

The Ottawa Community Food Bank’s client list is doing what I and my fellow consultants always wish our client lists were doing more of: growing. I doubt the OCFB is happy like I am when my client list grows by…

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Ontario’s real energy peaks, stated and understated: today’s focus, Thunder Bay

by Stephen E. Aplin • December 11, 2017 • 2 Comments

Outside temperatures in Thunder Bay Ontario at around 7:30 local time this morning are -14°C, which with the windchill feels like -20°C. It’s probably safe to say that most of Thunder Bay’s 121,000 residents are indoors: either inside the city’s…

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Item A1 Current concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere:
415.67 parts per million
In the last hour:
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 63.2 % of total electrical power generated in-province.
  • 98.1 % of Ontario-generated electricity was carbon-free.
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 64.5 % of Ontario's carbon-free electricity.
Table A1: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, in hour preceding 03:05 EST on Feb 28 2021
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 8,673 0
Hydro 4,159 0
Gas 263 101
Wind 701 0
Biofuel 0 0
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 0 0
TOTAL 13,796 106
CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 7.73 grams.
Table A2: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, midnight to 03:05 EST on Feb 28 2021
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 34,709 0
Hydro 16,215 0
Gas 1,366 524
Wind 3,843 0
Biofuel 0 0
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 0 0
TOTAL 56,133 546
Average CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 9.69 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
106 4,876
7.73 355.46
Tons CO2
CIPK, grams
If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO2 to fill Rogers Centre 1.7 times. As it was, 106 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.0 times.

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