I commented several times on the Toronto blackout of July 5th on CBC television and radio on July 6th. Attached is an article, called “Green Blackout”, expanding upon the points raised in the CBC interviews, particularly the role of careless environmental advocates in undermining the reliability of Toronto’s electricity transmission system. The article appeared in the on-line edition of the National Post July 7th and the print edition July 8th. The article was subsequently discussed by various media outlets including by John Tory on CRFB radio on July 9th.
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Green Blackout: Toronto July 5th 2010
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Update on Solar Gold Rush
Saturday, July 10th, 2010The National Post has carried a story July 7, 2010 indicating that a dim light is starting to glow in the mind of the McGuinty government that some of their Green Energy Act ideas were actually insane and profoundly damaging to Ontario.
Ontario government officials and agencies, together with the interest groups feeding off the Green Energy Act subsidies rarely miss an opportunity to declare the program a “success”. For Ontario consumers, success equals failure. As solar generation is added to the system, the rate impact will be great enough to choke off an equal or greater amount of load than the solar generators will actually serve applying conventional price elasticity estimates for electricity. This effect on load will drive rates even higher to cover the now largely fixed costs of the power system.
The interest groups feeding off the Green Energy Act subsidies are now ramping up a massive lobbying campaign to keep the subsidy spigot open a little longer. See for example the Facebook “Save the Micro-FIT Solar program in Ontario” and also this energy company: Green and Clean
A note from September 2009 anticipating a huge solar gold rush was posted here: