According to the latest press release from Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli, “everything old is new again”, if we are to believe any of the diatribe contained in it. One day after the highest demand day in 2013 the Minister has a “new” vision for our energy system. July 15, 2013, hour 17, the 2,017 MW of wind turbine generators were producing 47 MW of power to contribute to that peak demand hour's energy needs of 24,025 MW. Wind was providing less then 2 tenths of 1%. Not to worry though as the Ontario Power Authority has contracted for an additional 3,000 MW of wind development and when they are up and running Ontario might get as much as one half a percent from wind generators on those peak summer demand days.
Perhaps because of that miserly production Minister Chiarelli suddenly became aware that the “old” energy plan has severely harmed Ontario! That evidence may have convinced him that if he simply relabels the “plan” as the “New Energy Vision” things will get better. In the release he has discovered conservation and given it his “Top Priority” perhaps recognizing that wind sure isn't the panacea the environmentalists had promised. Read more »
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