{"id":187,"date":"2010-01-27T02:58:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-01-27T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:13:08","slug":"tipping-point-for-renewables-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Tipping Point for Renewables in Ontario?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now small-scale (10kW or less, such as might be installed a residential rooftops) will receive C$0.802\/kWh, up from the original C$0.40\/kWh for the electricity delivered to the grid.  See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerauthority.on.ca\/Page.asp?PageID=122&#038;ContentID=7136\">Ontario Feed-In Tariff Program Backgrounder<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly there were <a href=\"http:\/\/microfit.powerauthority.on.ca\/Program-resources\/Newsroom\/16-12-2009-microFIT-conditional-offers.php\">over 2,000 applications for such projects<\/a>, with approximately 700 approved as of Dec. 2009.   And over 1,000 larger scale applications.  How many actually deliver power, let alone payback and profit, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the recent announcement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/ontario-samsung-in-7-billion-deal-for-green-energy\/article1439002\/\">$7B Samsung\/Korea Electric renewable energy deal<\/a> is a result of the recent increases to the feed-in-tariffs?  The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyact.ca\/Page.asp?PageID=924&#038;ContentID=1398\">Green Energy Act Alliance<\/a> seem to think so&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>All this activity is supposed to create 50,000 Ontario jobs, since the projects must meet certain &#8220;made in Ontario&#8221; requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Bold move by the McGuinty Liberals, or a costly mistake?  Will we look back at 2009 as the year renewables finally started to make economic sense?  Only time will tell&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Expected opposition is &#8220;But it&#8217;s going to add $1.60\/year to my electricity bill&#8221;, proving once again that if it costs anything extra, some will oppose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now small-scale (10kW or less, such as might be installed a residential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18,25,30],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economics","tag-energy","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}