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Category Archives: Reforming Ontario’s Local Electrical Distribution Sector
Initiative to develop electricity distribution system reliability standards
(Oct. 29, 2010) Comments of Energy Probe Research Foundation on the initiative to develop electricity distribution system reliability standards in Ontario.
Parker Gallant: An open letter to Brad Duguid and Anthony Haines
(Oct. 18, 2010) Parker Gallant’s open letter to the Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Energy & Infrastructure and Mr. Haines, CEO, Toronto Hydro. Continue reading
Toronto Hydro lashed over blackout
(Oct. 15, 2010) Lawrence Solomon, executive director of the group Energy Probe, says Toronto Hydro would adopt more stringent measures to prevent blackouts if it had to compensate its customers for such disturbances. Continue reading
Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon on CBC TV today at 5:30 p.m.
(Oct. 15, 2010) Torontonians experience 10 to 15 times as many blackouts as their city counterparts in London, England. Why? The London power system is both privatized and well regulated. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Ontario power lesson
(Oct. 13, 2010) Notes for a speech that Ontario’s Opposition leader could give, but won’t, on the state of the province’s electricity sector. Continue reading
Power authority asked to explain missed deadline
(Oct. 6, 2010) Energy Probe board member Parker Gallant says the Ontario Power Authority broken the conditions of its license by failing to file an integrated power system plan, writes John Spears in the Toronto Star. Continue reading
Horizon seeks hefty hike
(Sept. 28) Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe, says these hikes are only the first of many to come if the government doesn’t drop its plan to close down coal-fired generating stations in favour of expensive wind and solar projects. Continue reading
A Liberal power surge: Blizzard
(Sept. 25) The root of Ontario’s ever-escalating fuel is the government’s “obsession to prematurely retire Ontario’s coal plants,” says Energy Probe’s executive director Lawrence Solomon. Continue reading
Zap! Your hydro bill’s going up
(Sept. 23) Ontario’s already higher hydro bills will double or triple within the next couple of years unless the McGuinty government stops overpaying for wind and solar and rethinks its pledge to abandon cheap, efficient coal plants, says Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe. Continue reading
Toronto is blackout city
(Jan. 24, 2009) Why are the city’s power outages double those of London? Continue reading
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