A couple weeks ago, the French nuclear utility, EDF, offered to buy British Energy, its UK counterpart, for the equivalent of around $22.8 billion Canadian. More recently, EDF tried to elbow Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings out of the bid…
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Ontario’s nuclear expectations: build them, but build them smart
The new nuclear build project at the Darlington generating station has begun. But rather than sinking shovels into the ground, Ontario’s premier and energy minister have focused their initial efforts on expectations
Electricity emissions contained as Ontario nuclear unit comes back online
After a three-month maintenance shutdown, Darlington generating unit #1 came back into service at five a.m. today. Not a minute too soon. Southern Ontario is heading into its first serious heat wave of 2008, and every air conditioner in the…
Ontario fiddles while gas burns: get ready for another energy price hike
To read new posts, see the Canadian Energy Issues homepage Last Friday, the Ontario Minister of Energy gave the operator of the province’s four coal-fired electricity generating plants until 2011 to cut annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by two-thirds. I…
Ontario power rate debate: what should the rate increase pay for?
Ontario’s regulated power generator, OPG, has asked the provincial regulator for permission to increase rates by 14 percent. OPG says it needs to raise money to build new nuclear and hydro facilities. It appears that green groups, or at least…