October 2, 2009

Ice Bear Keeps Utilities from Feeling the Heat

By
Jim Harris
Technology

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.

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