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record wind: what would the IESO say

Onshore and offshore wind turbines fed an all-time record of 32.6GW into the German grid on Wednesday, according to transmission operator TenneT said. The high output forced transmission system operators to apply costly measures in order to stabilise the grid. Since 9 November, TSOs have had to curtail 300MW of wind capacity and call up a daily amount between 200MW and 2.2GW of Germany’s winter reserve capacity to stabilise the grid. The report on Germany, based on information from its "transmission operator" might have a related report in Ontario, which may have had record wind output recently except for the curtailments of a lot more than Germany's 300MW. Data from Ontario's IESO indicates record wind ouptut of 3,297 megawatts for hour 16 of October 19th. Other data indicates that earlier on the 19th, approximated 2,310 megawatts of wind was being curtailed (in hour 3). My reporting for the day  estimates over 26,000 megawatts of potential generation from contracted...

finance minister claims he could be worse

a primer for yesterday's News Release from Ontario's Ministry of Finance The Office of the Auditor General of Ontario reported on the Ontario government's flippant disinterest in accounting for the Debt Retirement Charge (DRC) in its 2011 Annual Report : Given that the DRC has been collected from electricity consumers for almost a decade and that more than $8 billion in DRC revenue has been collected during that time, our view is that the Minister should make a formal determination of the outstanding amount of the residual stranded debt in the near future and make this determination public. Subsequently, the Ontario budget of 2012 included a section on the Residual Stranded Debt - which the DRC was introduced to retire: residual stranded debt is estimated to be $5.8 billion as at March 31, 2011... the residual stranded debt is estimated to be $4.5 billion as at March 31, 2012. Residual stranded debt is estimated to further decline to $3.6 billion as at March 31, 2013 . ...

Nuclear energy development news roundup for 11/9/15

Proposed Xe-100 pebble-bed nuclear reactor is designed for an abundant target market