{"id":27738,"date":"2023-05-26T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=27738"},"modified":"2023-05-26T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:32:09","slug":"this-is-the-future-of-a-clean-grid-ontario-ramps-up-battery-and-natural-gas-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=27738","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is the future of a clean grid\u2019: Ontario ramps up battery \u2014 and natural gas \u2014 capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: \u2018This is the future of a clean grid\u2019: Ontario ramps up battery \u2014 and natural gas \u2014 capacity<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cWe 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,\u201d Farmer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> last year.
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The road to net zero is paved with clean electricity. Ontario\u2019s 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\u2019ll undermine the effort<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

we’re planning for 1200~ MW storage in these contracts in three years for these battery contrxts. Also, 90% seems really good? is true??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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