Germany’s much-touted and -admired route to carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions has, predictably, proved to be an embarrassing and expensive failure. The bubble chart represents electricity data from 2010. As you can see, German electricity was, kilowatt-hour for kilowatt-hour, the second-dirtiest…
Category: Wind generation
Values, strategy, and opportunity: Toronto 416 is up for grabs, and the parties know it
Why did NDP energy critic Peter Tabuns, in a very successful media blitz in which he attacked Ontario Liberal energy policies, not attack nuclear as the source of Ontario electricity price hikes? You would think that would be his number…
Money for nothing: German wind turbines and solar panels useless during coldest, darkest part of the year
Germany has some of the dirtiest and most expensive electricity in the European Union. How is that possible, you ask, given that Germany also has the most wind turbines and solar panels in the EU? It is possible because wind…
Electricity prices in the EU, a tale of four countries: the price of political correctness II
Denmark and Germany have the highest household electricity prices in the OECD. France and Finland have prices that are in the lower 17 of the OECD’s 34 countries. It wasn’t always that way. As you can see in the chart…
Ontario grid expansion, 1960s: why developing countries will decarbonize electricity using nuclear energy
The developing world, i.e. the world outside Europe, North America, and Russia, is now responsible for nearly three-quarters of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) going into the earth’s atmosphere. The central question for climate change policy is: how can this…