Canadian Energy Issues

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…

Table A1: Total Ontario generation, and related CO₂ emissions, in hour preceding 00:06 EST on Oct 18 2017
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	10,026	0
Hydro	2,934	0
Gas	386	158
Wind	638	0
Biofuel	21	21
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	0	0
TOTAL	14,005	179
CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 12.85 grams.

Table A2: Total Ontario generation, and related CO₂ emissions, midnight to 00:06 EST on Oct 18 2017
FUEL	MWh	CO₂, tons
Nuclear	10,026	0
Hydro	2,934	0
Gas	386	158
Wind	567	0
Biofuel	21	21
Oil & Gas	0	0
Solar	0	0
TOTAL	13,934	179
Average CO₂ intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 12.85 grams

Actual Ontario grid	Gas replaces nuclear
179	5,693
12.85	408.59
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, 179 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.1 times.

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