This will continue for the duration of the pandemic, ultimately resulting in a significant increase in the amount of curtailment in 2020.” Despite high Ontario system demand peaks such as those on some hours of the day in July 2020, there remains many, many hours during the year with surplus generation that is either curtailed or exported at low prices which is a wasted economic and environmental opportunity. “OPG reported that in the first quarter of 2020, hydroelectric curtailment increased by 130 per cent. “The restrictions COVID-19 has imposed on economic activity are already having an impact on Ontario’s electricity consumption,” said Perruzza. These changes have led to an inevitable increase in wasted electricity. Electricity consumption patterns have drastically changed over the last six months, primarily as a result of shifts in the business climate and workplace. and a large percentage of homes left idle for a minimum of eight hours a day. Ontario’s current electricity system is built to support businesses operating between the hours of 9:00 a.m. OSPE estimates that about half of those exports were surplus clean electricity, enough to power about 1.2 million homes for one year. Total exports in 2019 were 19.8 TWh, compared to 18.6 TWh in 2018. This occurs because Ontario produces more clean electricity than Ontario consumers currently use, so the province is forced to sell off the surplus at the low wholesale market rate.
In addition to curtailment, surplus hydroelectric, wind, solar and nuclear generated electricity was also exported to adjoining power grids from 2014 to 2019 at prices much lower than the cost of production. “The province also continues to export even larger amounts of surplus clean electricity to neighbouring jurisdictions at a lower price than the total cost of production,” said Paul Acchione, P.Eng., energy expert and former President and Chair of OSPE. “This system is too expensive and simply not sustainable, which is why we are calling upon the provincial government and Ontario Energy Board to explore reformed retail pricing plans for consumers to subscribe to on a voluntary basis.” “Over the last six years, Ontario has curtailed 38.5 TWh of clean electricity,” said Sandro Perruzza, CEO of OSPE. The data indicates that Ontario’s electricity pricing system is not structured to account for the low demand it has been experiencing. The initial report, released by OSPE in April 2019, follows a detailed analysis of year-end data issued by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG). This trend has remained consistent with data dating back to 2015 and is anticipated to continue this year, with the prolonged impacts of COVID-19 expected to significantly increase the amount of wasted clean electricity in 2020. These findings represent a 12 per cent increase in wasted electricity from 2018.
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The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE), the voice of Ontario’s engineering community, has released updated data on curtailed (wasted) energy, following its 2019 Retail Electricity Price Reform Report, revealing that Ontario wasted a total of 6.5 terawatt-hours (TWh) of clean electricity in 2019 – an amount sufficient to power 720,000 average-sized homes for one year.
Trend expected to continue into 2020 for the sixth consecutive year
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