Recommendation 12-10: Eliminate the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit as quickly as possible.
I guess that would be now – the vote buying worked already
Recommendation 12-11: Review all other energy subsidy programs against measures of value for money and achievement of specific policy goals.
Bureaucrat paid to control expenses recommends more reviewing; empty-headed twaddle.
Recommendation 12-12: Produce an Integrated Power System Plan (IPSP) built on the foundation of the province’s Long-Term Energy Plan.
The LTEP is a political document. None of the comments invited are on the public record and it’s universally acknowledged to be idiotic. The LTEP can't be the foundation of anything of value.
The experts paid to produce an IPSP, at the OPA, should do so only if the LTEP is ignored.
Recommendation 12-13: Consolidate Ontario’s 80 local distribution companies (LDCs) along regional lines to create economies of scale.
Everybody knows consolidation is overdue - having provincial overlords enforcing it wouldn't be helpful though.
Recommendation 12-14: As part of the review of the feed-in tariff (FIT) program, take steps to mitigate its impact on electricity prices by
Only a poor economist would accept any form of the FIT program in today’s over-supplied Ontario.
Recommendation 12-15: Procure larger generation facilities through a request for proposal (RFP) process.
Why large? How large is large?
The experts paid to produce an IPSP, at the OPA, should do so only if the LTEP is ignored.
Recommendation 12-13: Consolidate Ontario’s 80 local distribution companies (LDCs) along regional lines to create economies of scale.
Everybody knows consolidation is overdue - having provincial overlords enforcing it wouldn't be helpful though.
Recommendation 12-14: As part of the review of the feed-in tariff (FIT) program, take steps to mitigate its impact on electricity prices by
Only a poor economist would accept any form of the FIT program in today’s over-supplied Ontario.
Recommendation 12-15: Procure larger generation facilities through a request for proposal (RFP) process.
Why large? How large is large?
Large is cheaper – why not only large?
See above comment on FIT program. MicroFIT rewards people for being better than other people (I'd say it rewards them for being politically correct AND well connected, but that itself would be PC).
Recommendation 12-16: Review the roles of various electricity sector agencies to identify areas for economies in administration. This could include investigating the potential to co-ordinate back-office functions.
That bureaucratic self-preservation instinct is one ugly tick.
Hopefully suggesting nothing when you have nothing to suggest is recommended elsewhere in the report.
Recommendation 12-17: Make wholesale electricity prices inclusive of transmission costs such as capacity limitations and congestion as part of a comprehensive restructuring of the wholesale electricity market.
Another minor note from a bureaucrat’s fiddle.
The government is spending billions on the Lower Mattagami project, which isn’t likely to produce much more output, required signing over part of the ownership to the local First Nations, requires probably another billion on transmission - as far as Wawa- and is taking place in a zone of Ontario where the wholesale market price has been negative, on average, for years.
Recommendation 12-16: Review the roles of various electricity sector agencies to identify areas for economies in administration. This could include investigating the potential to co-ordinate back-office functions.
That bureaucratic self-preservation instinct is one ugly tick.
Hopefully suggesting nothing when you have nothing to suggest is recommended elsewhere in the report.
Recommendation 12-17: Make wholesale electricity prices inclusive of transmission costs such as capacity limitations and congestion as part of a comprehensive restructuring of the wholesale electricity market.
Another minor note from a bureaucrat’s fiddle.
The government is spending billions on the Lower Mattagami project, which isn’t likely to produce much more output, required signing over part of the ownership to the local First Nations, requires probably another billion on transmission - as far as Wawa- and is taking place in a zone of Ontario where the wholesale market price has been negative, on average, for years.
I don't see moving about line items as really addressing anything.
Recommendation 12-18: Make regulated prices more reflective of wholesale prices by increasing the on-peak to off-peak price ratio of time-of-use pricing and by making critical peak pricing available on an opt-in basis.
12-17 suggests improvements in the market one moment, and 12-18 is the ravings of a micro-managing bureaucrat wishing to enforce his opinion on a market Peak demand is collapsing, leaving generators providing cheaper and cheaper pricing to meet the rare upticks in demand.
Recommendation 12-19: Co-ordinate a comprehensive, proactive electricity education strategy across sector participants that at a minimum covers:
Indoctrinate, indoctrinate, indoctrinate …
Recommendation 12-20: Strategically promote Ontario’s strengths in the energy sector, capitalizing on export opportunities for domestic goods and services.
Strategically?
Please don't strategize.
Recommendation 12-18: Make regulated prices more reflective of wholesale prices by increasing the on-peak to off-peak price ratio of time-of-use pricing and by making critical peak pricing available on an opt-in basis.
12-17 suggests improvements in the market one moment, and 12-18 is the ravings of a micro-managing bureaucrat wishing to enforce his opinion on a market Peak demand is collapsing, leaving generators providing cheaper and cheaper pricing to meet the rare upticks in demand.
Recommendation 12-19: Co-ordinate a comprehensive, proactive electricity education strategy across sector participants that at a minimum covers:
Indoctrinate, indoctrinate, indoctrinate …
Recommendation 12-20: Strategically promote Ontario’s strengths in the energy sector, capitalizing on export opportunities for domestic goods and services.
Strategically?
Please don't strategize.
