Ontario energy analysis shows how wind / solar gouge electric ratepayers | Eastern North Carolina Now

An energy analysis has used specific data to show how use of wind and solar energy in the province of Ontario leads to substantially higher energy costs to ratepayers due to its unreliable and intermittent nature.  If the wind is not blowing enough or blowing too hard, power output declines markedly requiring expensive backup.  Turning other power sources on and off at the whims of wind or solar production is very inefficient and therefore costly.

The analysis looks at specific time periods, when wind production was high during the night while demand was low, and power had to be exported on the cheap, but during the day when power demand was high, the output from wind fell off markedly, and the grid operator had to ramp up other sources of power at high last minute rates to replace what wind was failing to provide.

https://parkergallantenergyperspectivesblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/industrial-wind-turbines-once-again-demonstrate-their-unreliability/

Where Ontario is now is where Roy Cooper, Phil Berger, and Tim Moore want to send North Carolina with their Green New Deal, HB951.

For Ontario itself, at least, a change in the political winds has meant the ratepayers bleeding is at least not getting any worse.  In the last provincial election, Doug Ford's Conservatives won the biggest landslide in Canadian history by running against the wind / solar boondoggle, flipping a 2 to 1 Liberal over Conservative majority to a 10 to 1 Conservative over Liberal majority.  After gaining power, the Conservatives immediately cancelled every wind and solar project in the permitting pipeline, over 800 of them, and then repealed the Green Energy Act.  They also helped get four wind energy companies indicted criminally for multiple felonies of polluting the ground water which prosecution the Liberals had blocked.