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Ontario may eventually gather the wherewithal to start redirecting the provincial power system away from parasitism towards responsible cost management. One agency is getting ahead of the curve with its sales pitch — don’t blame us.
Ontario may eventually gather the wherewithal to start redirecting the provincial power system away from parasitism towards responsible cost management. One agency is getting ahead of the curve with its sales pitch — don’t blame us.
On January 10, Toronto’s City Council will be holding a special meeting to discuss the ice storm and power outage with specific attention to the performance of Toronto Hydro and City emergency services and preparedness plans. The first order of business for Council ought to be commissioning an independent expert review of Toronto Hydro’s incompetent …
On December 22, 2013, as freezing rain stopped falling, Toronto Hydro’s CEO Anthony Haines promised hundreds of thousands of people blacked out across the city that everyone would have their power restored within 72 hours. He had the most advanced and costly urban Smart Grid system in Canada at his fingertips. The weather over the …
I recommend this commentary by Kennedy Maize distinguishing between a more resilient, reliable supply of electricity for consumers from the ill-defined and potentially invasive “smart grid”.
This posting kicks off a new series reporting on “Smart Grid”. As my co-author Kathy Hamilton and I argue in our column “Ontario’s next energy project” published in the National Post today, Smart Grid is the big new fad taking over power industry policy.