Wind projects in the air for Central Huron
Melissa Murray
Clinton News Record
May 2, 2012

The two wind projects proposed for Central Huron cannot progress until awarded a Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) contract.

Last Wednesday, April 25, Leader Resources Services Corp., held a private landowners meeting to update leaseholders about the new Feed-In-Tariff guidelines are and how that affects the Twenty Two Degree and Summerhill projects going forward... more


The sorry lessons of green-power subsidies
GWYN MORGAN |Columnist profile
From Monday's Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Apr. 29, 2012 8:00PM EDT

A recent study, co-authored by Fraser Institute energy economist Gerry Angevine, found that Ontario residents will pay an average of $285-million more for electricity each year for the next 20 years as a result of subsidies to renewable energy companies.

By the end of 2013, Ontario household power rates will be the second-highest in North America (after PEI), and they will continue to accelerate while they level off in most other jurisdictions. Even more alarming for Ontario’s economic competitiveness, businesses and industrial customers will be hit by almost $12-billion in additional costs over the same period.

Such is the legacy of the provincial government’s 2009 decision to establish feed-in rates, ranging from 44.5 cents to 80.2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for solar power, and 13.5 cents/kWh for wind power. These solar feed-in rates average 11 times the 5.6 cents/kWh paid for nuclear-generated power, and 18 times the 3.5 cents/kWh for hydro-generated power. The wind-power rates are more than twice as high as nuclear, and four times those of hydro.

Besides the direct cost of these huge subsidies, there’s also a big hidden cost of fossil-fuelled standby facilities, because the wind doesn’t always blow and the Ontario sun certainly doesn’t always shine... more
 

If I wanted Canada to fail...