Below are two graphs with demand included for a 2-week summer period in 2019:
1. Tripled wind and solar, current hydro, nuclear and gas deleted.

2. Tripled solar, current nuclear and hydro, wind and gas deleted.

One of these is pretty close to 'just add storage' to eliminate

OCAA: you must proceed quickly to build the Portlands gas plant.

Also the OCAA: you need to shutdown the Portlands gas plant.

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Weird... And they have previously been funded by Enbridge and Union gas. Jack was quick to promote the non-emitting Pickering facility be replaced by gas plants as well.

🇦🇪 UAE to build SECOND nuclear plant!

Since 2017, they have added more clean energy per capita than any country in the world. This will likely secure their significant lead.

Their first plant was called Barakah, “blessing”. What should the next one be called?

Latest Ontario wind turbine, solar and Ontario Power Gen #Pickering2075 performance graphs for the 2-week period ending April 23rd, 2024. Solar performance* is interesting for this one, with considerable variability.

*I have adjusted the data for a metering error on the 14th.

How to have CO2 emissions as low as France.

I am going to reveal a big secret….

Great graph from the Independent Electricity System Operator on how the province's Powering Ontario's Growth plan is making smart investments to enable our reliable, affordable & clean electricity grid to support substantial emission reductions & attract job creators. ⚡️🍃

Tomorrows mix is going to show a considerable drop in nuclear for today, as Bruce units 5 and 6 dropped off due to the planned vacuum building outage, which takes place every 10 years and is performed in the spring or fall when demand is the lowest.

Nuclear power is there when we need it!

Great job by the men and women who work at Bruce Power NGS's Unit 7, which just completed a historic 646 day run, providing safe, clean and reliable energy to the people of Ontario.

Learn more : brucepower.com/2024/04/19/uni…

California CAISO last 14 days
RE and batteries, black line = demand.
Headlines say: 100% renewable every day [as % of demand, for brief periods].

Pickering Unit 5 is looking to outperform these days with help from an advanced high pressure turbine. It has been high as high as 560 MW in initial testing after installation in 2021.

A sign of things to come with full refurbishment.

#Pickering2075 #CANDU 🇨🇦 #NuclearEnergy

Tim Echols has been a tireless advocate for a reliable grid in Georgia. If you are in Georgia, I hope you will vote for him!

'In 2018, Lucas Davis wrote a blog post titled “Why Am I Paying $65/year for Your Solar Panels?” The question is still with us today, except now it’s more like “Why Am I Paying $300/year for Your Solar Panels?”'
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/cal…

Over 6 months since Dogger Bank A was connected to grid.
Last 6 months output looks like this.
Been waiting for better data, guess it's not finished.

There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country. Below chart, showing energy use by GDP/capita (GDP in purchasing power parity), shows that for society to flourish, we need a lot of energy. 🧵

The graph is from Our World in Data and can be found here: ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy…

Ontario currently subsidizes $3.1 billion of our electricity bills not to fund nuclear, but to remove 85% of the cost of the wind and solar contracts signed under the GEA from them.

Tripling wind and solar and removing nuclear and gas leaves a 12,000MW firm supply deficit,

More good jobs. A better future.

#NuclearEnergy 🇨🇦

Today Ontario welcomed an $80 million investment by BWXT in Cambridge to expand their nuclear manufacturing facility.

This investment is going to support Ontario's nuclear build out while creating 250 new good-paying jobs!

Learn more: news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

👏The future of nuclear starts in Ontario. Ultimately, it will be made-in-Ontario components and expertise that will help build, fuel, and operate the next generation of nuclear.

The selection of a reactor technology for new nuclear construction is a critical infrastructure decision that will affect millions of Canadians & touch on national security. Fuel security needs to be a criterion in that selection & our Prov & Fed governments need to have a role.