Why are we are paying for non produced power

In 2014 and in 2015 Ontario diverted or 'spilled water' as they call it at our hydroelectric power stations in the amount of 3.2 twh each of those years, which is roughly enough hydro to power three hundred and fifty thousand homes for a full year which was not produced because Ontario is over producing power and wind and solar farms have top priority to the power grid. And if you are wondering OPG was paid 47 million per twh for power not produced. The Liberals are also paying the owners of wind farms two hundred thousand dollars a megawatt for non produced power, while solar farms are getting paid not to produce hydro.

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The Atikokan biomass plant runs at less than 10% capacity. The Thunder Bay biomass plant runs at 2% capacity, and Ontario Power Generation still employs 25 people to run the closed Lambton coal plant. Yet, the Liberals continue to add more solar and wind farms in Ontario. So why are the Liberals overproducing hydro to this extent ? Glenn Murray has clearly stated home heating will have to come from other sources other than natural gas. But now that Premier Wynne and Glenn Murray are saying they have no plan to ban natural gas , how can you trust them? Now can you can see why we have the highest hydro rates in North America? Finally, I would like to note back in 2010 the Liberals stated they wanted to triple or quadruple our peak rates as an incentive for us to conserve hydro and back then our peak rate was 9.9 cents a kwh. Why should we conserve whenwe now produce enough excess hydro to fully supply Nova Scotia for 5 years, and why are our rates the highest in North America

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Ready for rate rage? Soon, there will be even more changes to time-of-use hydro charges Back when the Ontario government introduced time-of-use billing to hydro, it had two simple purposes: to reflect the higher costs of daytime power (when home and business energy use turns on expensive natural gas plants) and to try and shift consumer’s electricity use from expensive daytime power to cheaper nighttime power (when Ontario mostly runs off nuclear and hydroelectric power.) Just one problem: it doesn’t seem to have worked. According to the CBC, the government is now looking at making the peak power rates even more expensive. Auditor rips Ontario electricity system Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. In her annual report released Wednesday, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk serves up a heaping helping of cold, hard facts — enough to make Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli squirm Ontario Wind Turbines: Ontario has the most expensive electricity in North America We are subsidizing the wind industry. 4% of our power is from wind energy, yet it costs us 20% of our electrical bill. Ontario pays 11-13.5 cents per kWh for wind power. The average price in the U.S. is 7 cents. The average price for Ontario nuclear, water and gas is 7 cents.

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Gridmonsters attack! Wind, solar power are inefficient, unreliable and make electricity grid more costly than it has to be In his April 26 Letter to the Editor, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli wrote that “for the first time the cost of producing electricity from wind is below the average cost of producing electricity in Ontario.” Using this Orwellian “doublespeak”, Chiarelli failed to mention that under his 20-year “Feed-in Tariff” (FIT) contracts, we pay wind energy corporations much more, not less, than the rates we pay for each kilowatt of the hydro, nuclear or gas-generated electricity that wind energy replaces. Really? Ontario Liberals want to eliminate natural gas to heat your home The Ontario Liberal energy polices continue to put people in the poor house and it doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon when you consider what was discussed at Queen’s Park yesterday, prompting the Ontario PC Caucus to issue a press release on the matter. Liberal Minister for Environment and Climate Change Glen Murray confirmed his plan to eliminate natural gas as a fuel in Ontario. Industry officials estimate that switching homes from natural gas to electric heat will cost each Ontario household $3,000 more each year. Approximately 62 per cent of Ontario homes use natural gas for heating.

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