Assessing both moves announced Tuesday left some clean-energy advocates struggling to separate and weigh the long-term potential for more wind and solar, versus the immediate increase in carbon emissions.
Source: ‘This is the future of a clean grid’: Ontario ramps up battery — and natural gas — capacity
“We are preparing for natural gas to phase out of the system and to be available as a backup in the period post 2035. And we are structuring our contracts in a way to enable that to happen,” Farmer said.
seems reasonable… what is cost to maintain some (what percentage of current?) to be cold backups, so maintained by being fired up up a few times a year? is this even psossible? or pehaps just runs them in really low power mode, so more of a “warm” backup instead of a fully off-line “cold” backup?
Ontario will need between 5,120 and 6,470 megawatts of storage to achieve a net-zero grid by 2035, according to a study put out by Energy Storage Canada last year.
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The road to net zero is paved with clean electricity. Ontario’s grid is already 90 per cent non-carbon-emitting but getting to 100 per cent net-zero power will involve compromises. The question is whether these compromises will be so big, they’ll undermine the effort.
we’re planning for 1200~ MW storage in these contracts in three years for these battery contrxts. Also, 90% seems really good? is true??
