Posts Tagged ‘energy’

Ice Bear Keeps Utilities from Feeling the Heat

Posted Friday, October 2nd, 2009 by admin

In electricity planning, everything is geared to peak demand. About 15% of the total generation capacity in Ontario is required because of peak demand for 50 out of the 8,760 hours a year. In other words: Billions of dollars of capital cost are spent in developing the capacity to prepare for and supply demand which occurs only 0.57% of the time.

Canada tops ranks of the wasteful among G8 nations

Posted Friday, August 21st, 2009 by admin

My latest column in the National Post exposes some of the risks Canada faces if we don’t get serious about energy efficiency.

Read it here: http://bit.ly/5VWgwo

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A Crisis is a terrible thing to waste – Coming 2010

Jim Harris discusses the 4 concurrent challenges that nations are currently facing and provides a set of solutions in his new book A Crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

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