Where’s the “Geothermal Revolution” (or even the GSHP Revolution)?
CBC has recently reported on a proposed community-scale ground source heat pump installation, including sceptical comments from me.
Selected data and opinion on various themes related to energy and environmental policy.
CBC has recently reported on a proposed community-scale ground source heat pump installation, including sceptical comments from me.
All the partisans for and against the Green Energy Act (GEA) screaming about the act’s demise are missing the forest for the trees. Premier Ford’s new legislation claiming to repeal McGuinty’s signature legislative legacy preserves the core of the original GEA.
With this legislation, the Ford gov’t is taking over one of the key functions of the OEB — overseeing gas system expansion.
Here is a rough summary of my appearance on the Craig Needles Show, AM980 London Ontario, June 27 10:35 am.
Here is a rough summary of my interview with Scott Thompson on AM900 CHML in Hamilton around 1:35 November 27th.
Rough summary of Nov. 27 Interview with Tom McConnell — CKTB radio 10 am time slot Link: http://www.iheartradio.ca/610cktb/shows/the-tom-mcconnell-show-1.1816233
Patrick Brown’s election platform “guarantees” that the Ontario PCs “will fix Hydro”. He reverses the PC’s previous rejection of Premier Wynne’s Fair Hydro Plan, which shifts 25% of current household rates to taxpayers and future consumers. The new PC position is that the only problem with Wynne’s hydro cost shifting and deferral program is that …
The Ontario PC party released the results of its membership vote on a wide range of policy initiatives yesterday in advance of the party’s policy convention tomorrow. On topics that would influence Ontario’s electricity future, the results emphasize (in case anyone doubted) profound dissatisfaction within the PC base about the electricity situation but also expose …
The Ontario governing party with five criminal investigations ongoing including several related to document destruction, the party of pay-for-access policy-for-hire fundraisers, the party that dismisses the Auditor General as confused about many things to do with energy, that is the party that is right now concocting a carbon market in Ontario out of government decrees. …
The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) says it is “committed to increasing energy literacy and providing consumers with reliable information.” As part of this commitment, it has published a rate comparison report here. The OEB’s report appears to be a reply to my power rates comparison analysis available here and published three days before the OEB’s. …