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1. Cryptocurrency investors eye provinces with low electricity rates

   Recent media reports suggest lower power costs in some provinces could make Canada an attractive destination for bitcoin miners to run their power-hungry operations, with a Chinese firm already considering establishing a bitcoin ...

2. Canada’s energy sector gets some gifts (and a lump of coal) in 2017

   Canada’s energy economy received several gifts in time for this holiday season. Some were good, some were, well, not so good. One of the gifts was from the National Energy Board, which finally exerted its federal authority to approve ...

3. High cost of renewables—a made-in-Ontario problem

   A recent CBC News article discussed how market-based bidding structures have pushed down the electricity costs generated by renewable sources in Mexico and other places around the world. In Mexico’s case, the Italian company ENEL signed ...

4. Ontario’s Fair Hydro Plan—a temporary Band-Aid with high costs

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, October 22, 2017 A recent report from Ontario’s auditor general slammed the Wynne government’s “needlessly complex” plan to reduce electricity bills for Ontarians. According to the report, the government is keeping the true ...

5. Ontarians need real reforms that will actually reduce electricity prices

   Those smart thermostats won't be free—taxpayers will foot the bill. ...

6. Ontario power users get some relief, but there’s still much more to do

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 18, 2017 According to a recent report, the governments of Ontario and Quebec are negotiating a power agreement that would see some of Quebec’s cheaper hydro power sold into Ontario’s high-priced energy markets. The ...

7. Electricity bills in Toronto remain high compared to U.S. cities

   Wind, solar and biomass policies have resulted in high additional costs for consumers. ...

8. Ontario's crisis of unaffordable energy

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, January 18, 2017 It’s human nature to take many important things for granted—until they are taken away. For example, most of us take for granted the ability to breathe the air around us. It’s only when we develop a respiratory ...

9. Trudeau gets a lesson on energy poverty by Ontario resident

   In a video now circulating around the Internet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets an earful from a distressed Ontarian over the insane cost of electricity in the province. Holding a hydro bill of more than $1,000 in her shaking hands, ...

10. Wind and solar power makes sense in far-flung places

    I’m typically skeptical about proposals for massive, widespread deployment of wind and solar power. My problem with the idea is that these sources are intermittent, meaning we need to maintain 100 per cent backup power that we don’t ...