Once Again, Natural Gas Rescued Ontario From Blackouts

Well September 7^th,2023 came and went and we Ontarians had another day without power blackouts thanks to our natural gas plants.  

Our natural gas plants were humming throughout the day and generated 131,407 MWh which kept our businesses operating and the lights in our houses on. The day’s peak demand hour came at Hour 17 reaching 21,266 MW but wasn’t high enough to make the “Top 10” peak hour list in the current year. At that hour our gas plant generated 6,485 MWh or 30.4% of peak demand. Over the day IWT (industrial wind turbines) were operating well above their frequent low generation status during a summer day producing 19,957 MWh of power.  They operated at 16.9% of their capacity and at the peak hour generated 1,181 MWh or 5.5% of the hour’s peak demand.

The major reason we needed all that power from our gas plants was partly related to the fact Bruce Nuclear had three of their 800 MW plants (G-3, G-6 and G-8) down and at hour 11 they shut down G-1 so 3,200 MW of nuclear capacity were down meaning only 7,800 MW of nuclear capacity were operating from that hour forward.

As a side note the G-6 unit was down for MCR (Major Component Replacements) but restarted at 1 AM today (September 8^th, 2023) as the MCR was finished and by Hour 10 was generating 234 MW.

Fossil Fuels are Needed

It is amusing but potentially damaging the “climate change” organizations such as the David Suzuki Foundation continue to push for an exit of fossil fuels to create electricity as they pontificate in an article posted yesterday containing the following:

“ Experts working with organizations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the International Energy Agency tell us we must curtail rampant consumerism, leave fossil fuels behind and shift quickly to renewable energy.“

Based on the foregoing they are obviously advocating for blackouts and energy poverty as; along with advocating for fossil fuel exits they are also against nuclear power as an earlier article on their website from May 2023 states:

“Along with its many known problems, as an inflexible, costly baseload power source, nuclear is becoming as outdated as fossil fuels. Small modular reactors will create even more waste and cost more — and slow the necessary transition to renewable energy.“

It seems obvious those many charitable “climate change” advocates such as the David Suzuki Foundation (annual revenue of $11,573,083 in last CRA filing) and others of their ilk have absolutely no concept on how reliable energy is necessary for our livelihood.

Conclusion

The time has come for the CRA to do what they had planned to do back in 2014 and investigate those charities involved in political advocacy.  Those investigations were cancelled after the Trudeau led Liberals gained power and their damage to the Canadian economy has only gained traction since then!