Monday, October 15, 2012

Ontario Hourly Electricity Breakdown Website

I saw this site on reddit/canada, where the contribution from different electricity sources for Ontario is shown hourly. According to the comments on reddit, solar isn't shown, although whether that exactly true or not is unknown.

At the writing of this post, wind is at 6%, when I looked yesterday it was at 8%. It should be fun to watch it bounce around, especially in the middle of the night when demand is low. Unfortunately, the province is contracted to pay for all wind produced which often results in excess power being exported to the US at a loss leading to the infamous "global adjustment" fee on your hydro bill. So ironically, less wind is often better for Ontarians.

The site is produced by the Canadian Nuclear Society, which isn't that surprising when nuclear is over 50% every time I've looked at it. No matter who produced, it is still quite interesting.

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