Our Ottawa Manotick microgrid May 28, 2022 CBC ca 2022 05 30
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what is the IESO? Ontario’s grid operator, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), provides an overview of the province’s electricity landscape, its future, regional planning, and the critical role of community and stakeholder input.
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Arguments that renewable energy isn’t up to the task because “the Sun doesn’t shine at night and the wind doesn’t blow all the time” are overly simplistic.
There are a number of renewable energy technologies which can supply baseload power. The intermittency of other sources such as wind and solar photovoltaic can be addressed by interconnecting power plants which are widely geographically distributed, and by coupling them with peak-load plants such as gas turbines fueled by biofuels or natural gas which can quickly be switched on to fill in gaps of low wind or solar production. Use of batteries and other storage techniques are often the preferred low carbon way of filling in intermittency. Numerous regional and global case studies – some incorporating modeling to demonstrate their feasibility – have provided plausible plans to meet 100% of energy demand with renewable sources.
Can renewables provide baseload power?
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EV batteries advances and challenges in a space full of energy storage innovation.
https://insideevs.com/news/757119/tesla-model-3-battery-degradation-after-200k/
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There are too many people on the planet consuming too much.
Clearly the problem is so large that there is room for a systems approach to simultaneously reduce population, reduce resource consumption and reduce energy dependence on fossil fuels. Working on only one of these is insufficient. This document addresses a means to reduce fossil fuel dependence and cost by up to 85%
Microgrids and bi-directional EV charging study
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Countering the duck curve:
How microgrids and DERS can reduce demand spikes | Utility Dive
Microgrids will reduce volatility of demand on the grid
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Heating and Cooling With a Heat Pump
Heating and Cooling With a Heat Pump (nrcan.gc.ca)
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The Renewable Energy Transition Takes Off
U.S. 2022 Power Sector Outlook: The Renewable Energy Transition Takes Off
2022-US-Power-Sector-Outlook_April-2022.pdf (ieefa.org)
(28) Europe’s Energy Nightmare Has Only Just Begun – YouTube
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How transforming Canada’s electricity grid could drive decarbonization, save billions
Why Canada needs a coast-to-coast power grid
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Remember when powering your house with your vehicle was a wild idea?
https://microgridknowledge.com/vehicle-to-microgrid-vehicle-to-grid/
also: https://youtu.be/-KQEt5QqPXU
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‘You’re further ahead with an EV’: How EV owners weather massive power outages
‘You’re further ahead with an EV’: How EV owners weather massive power outages – Online EV
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Battery recycling
Fire, delays, and financial woes: Battery recycling… | Canary Media
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EV Battery Health with Dr Jeff Dahn Dalhousie U
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The Dr. Bill Rees collection – footprint and ecological overshoot
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Re “Trump’s tariffs are the price Canada must pay for freeriding on
defence” (Jan. 16): Our leaders have focused on retaliatory tariffs, which
not only hurt both sides but threaten to gravely weaken our confederation.
Retaliation may have its place, but why not first consider resolving what
Donald Trump made clear in his first term, that Canada is “freeriding off of
U.S. defence protection” while enjoying unfettered access to the U.S.
market?
Let’s take this opportunity to meet our NATO defence expenditure
commitments. As a sovereign nation, we are responsible for shoring up our
own land, sea and air military capabilities in the Arctic.
Savings garnered from avoiding tariffs would help offset defence
expenditures, and contracts with U.S. suppliers would assuage Mr. Trump’s
concerns over any trade imbalance.
F. S. Carpenter Ottawa
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Enough is plenty.
‘Those who do not know the meaning of enough, will never be rich’ apparently from Confucius.
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