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Five years one-hundred and fifty-three days ago the Ontario Power Authority offered a feed-in tariff (FIT) power contract to Nigig Power Corporation for a 300 megawatt capacity industrial wind facility. The project now is referred to as the Henvey Inlet Wind Project. At the time the contract period was 3 years and the World Trade Organization was yet to rule against provincial sourcing of material. The project was kept alive by, as much as anyone, faux conservative Tony Clement. A known proponent of wasteful spending within his riding, Clement announced a $3 million gift to advance the project last July - at about the time the project absolutely positively should have been cancelled due to 4 years of absolutely no progress despite an expected in service data of 2014: "Our Government continues to make strategic community investments designed to enhance the participation of Aboriginal peoples in their local economies. This project will stand for many years to come as a source of g...

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has finally released  Ontario’s System-Wide Electricity Supply Mix: 2015 Data . Previous years' versions of this reporting have been almost unique in providing an indication of the costs of embedded generation. Although the OEB supply mix data shows only percentages by supply types, assuming all nuclear is grid-connected (Tx, or direct) generation, it's reasonable to use the annual nuclear generation reported by the IESO (including curtailed nuclear) to calculate estimated generation from each source - and having done that to estimate the cost of the generation not reported by the IESO using estimated unit costs from Table 2 of the most recent OEB Regulated Price Plan supply cost documentation .   There's $1.35 billion in hidden solar costs here! Why is the IESO contracting more solar when the can't provide any accounting on what they've already contracted?

Today column is on the Premier of Ontario's negligence. I’m on CPP disability as I’m in remission from cancer. In the winter we use our wood burning stove because we shut our breakers off as we have baseboard heaters. Next week we’ll pay our bill and buy maybe $50 worth of food to hopefully survive. - Andre Richards, Sutton Three of my previous four posts at my Cold Air blog dealt with difficult topics that included capacity factor and capacity value/credit.  The fourth post discussed statistics for the first half of the year. This post uses a small set of IESO statistics and first half-year generation with industrial wind turbines to display the economic damage of a collapse in value of incremental wind turbines. Most data for this post is directly from Ontario's system operator (IESO) 1 . The one small change to the data is I've omitted records for facilities prior to the first day an hour produced at 85% of nameplate capacity. This chart illustrates the changes between...