News and issues related to energy in Canada with a CCRE connection

Marc Brouillette
In “Renewables-based Distributed Energy Resources in Ontario: A Three-Part Series of Unfortunate Truths.

Read the Full Press Release (PDF)  Toronto, Ontario – In “Renewables-based Distributed Energy Resources in Ontario: A Three-Part Series of Unfortunate Truths. Part 2 – Ratepayer Cost Implications” author and principle consultant at Strategic Policy Economics (Strapolec), Marc Brouillette describes how intermittent renewable generation characteristics differ greatly from the patterns of energy demand in Ontario.

Mark Brouillette
In “Renewables-based Distributed Energy Resources in Ontario: A Three-Part Series of Unfortunate Truths, Part 1 – Intermittency Considerations”, author Marc Brouillette describes how the intermittency of renewable generation resulting from Ontario’s climate and geography, undermines their potential to be coupled with storage to meet the province’s need for clean energy.

Bruce Pardy
In “FIT to be Untied” author and Professor of Law, Bruce Pardy describes how a newly elected Ontario Legislature could legally terminate, tax or amend the pprovince’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) electricity contracts which have proven to be expensive and contentious.

Marc Brouillette
In “Buying Electricity from Quebec: The Case Against New Intertie Capacity” author Marc Brouillette outlines how the $3.3 billion cost to upgrade interconnections with Quebec outweighs the benefits and is also

Paul Acchione, P. Eng.,
In “A Truly Smart Electricity Price Plan for Ontario” author Paul Acchione
outlines how Ontario’s existing smart metering and renewable electricity generation
investments can work together to reduce consumers’ costs.

Greg Baden
In “Apples to Apples: Fixing Ontario’s Electricity Price Mismatch” author Greg Baden analyzes why Ontarians pay as much as $60 per megawatt-hour (or 6 cents per kilowatt-hour) more for their own electricity than do those in surrounding US states who import from Ontario.

Robert Warren
““The Ontario Energy Board (OEB), Ontario’s energy regulator, does not meet some important Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) principles and its governance should be independently reviewed.

Mark Brouillette
Toronto, Ontario – In “Rethinking Ontario’s Long-Term Energy Plan” author Marc Brouillette outlines how Ontario’s 2013 long term energy plan will not achieve its stated objectives.

Steven Lightfoot
In “Hope is not enough: Inspiring better energy policy” author Steven Lightfoot concludes that
setting intelligent energy policy cannot be based on “hope.”