{"id":5667,"date":"2014-04-17T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2014-04-17T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:44:04","slug":"ontario-coal-free-since-2014-april-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/ontario-coal-free-since-2014-april-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario – coal free! since 2014 April 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. The Thunder Bay Generating Station, Ontario’s final remaining coal-fired facility, has burned its last supply of coal and will be converted to burn biomass.<\/p>\n

Yay! <\/p>\n

Now we just have to get the US states upwind of us to shut down theirs as well and maybe we will all live a little healthier.
\nOn the other hand, electricity prices are heading up again effective 2014 May 01<\/p>\n

The New Low Rate \u2014 7.5 cents kW\/h, up 0.3 cents \u2014 in the overnight weekday hours of 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and on all weekends and holidays.
\nThe Medium Rate – weekdays between 7-11 a.m. and 5-7 p.m. will be 11.2 cents kW\/h, also an increase of 0.3 cents.
\nThe High Rate – 13.5 cents kW\/h, weekdays between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The on-peak power price is up 0.6 cents kW\/h.<\/p>\n

Now this is only 50% of the total delivered to your house costs. There are transmission charges, taxes, old debt and other charges as well. Offsetting those is a 10% credit which still tops out the total bill about 2x that of the price of the power alone.<\/p>\n

As of today, a 1kwh load running all of the time for one year, will cost you approx $1552 (a little less as I did not take into account statutory holidays). So that 40watt bulb illuminating the cats food and litter area will run you 0.040*$1552 = $62
\nThat old CRT TV that is always plugged in but not turned on is That measured in at 7 watts or $11\/year.<\/p>\n

Time to start turning off all of the computers when not in use. And a lot of other 110vac powered items!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. The Thunder Bay Generating Station, Ontario’s final remaining coal-fired facility, has burned its last supply of coal and will be converted to burn biomass. Yay! Now we just have to get the US states upwind of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-power","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}