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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 • 9 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…

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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…

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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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Item A1 Current concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere:
414.83 parts per million
In the last hour:
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 53.7 % of total electrical power generated in-province.
  • 94.7 % of Ontario-generated electricity was carbon-free.
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 56.7 % of Ontario's carbon-free electricity.
Table A1: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, in hour preceding 12:05 EST on Jan 22 2021
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 9,906 0
Hydro 4,633 0
Gas 852 328
Wind 3,299 0
Biofuel 31 31
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 894 0
TOTAL 19,614 366
CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 19.84 grams.
Table A2: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, midnight to 12:05 EST on Jan 22 2021
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 118,872 0
Hydro 48,691 0
Gas 5,046 1,946
Wind 29,746 0
Biofuel 282 282
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 1,430 0
TOTAL 202,781 2,301
Average CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 11.06 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
366 5,814
19.84 315.24
Tons CO2
CIPK, grams
If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO2 to fill Rogers Centre 2.0 times. As it was, 366 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.1 times.

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