Christopher Adlam

Thread: Pumped storage seems to be all the rage for "firming" renewables. This ran through my head last night and I got thinking, what's the scale required? /1

At this moment, 26-Jul-2025 @ 08:59, 84.6% of Alberta's electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind is at 2.7% of capacity and producing 1.5% of total generation, while solar is at 31.7% of capacity and producing 5.8% of total generation. At the same time, we are…

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Goodbye my dear teacher… …a father to all of us …my friend. I love you @OzzyOsbourne and I will miss you terribly. #Ozzy

The process to ultimately reach 2075 continues. #Pickering2075 #CANDU 🍁 #NuclearEnergy 🇨🇦

ON wholesale market summary for June 2025 is out. up a little from June 2014. YTD is functionally gibberish @IESO_Tweets the DAM is an avg of May and June (as is the deviation adj) the GA is the average of Jan-June. The ttl adds the avg DAM to the avg GA

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At this moment, 17-Jul-2025 @ 18:59, 84.1% of Alberta's electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind is at 8.4% of capacity and producing 4.6% of total generation, while solar is at 27.4% of capacity and producing 4.8% of total generation. At the same time, we are…

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As of July 1, Candu Energy has injected $2.08 billion in purchase orders into the CANDU supply chain, across more than 548 companies in the last 18 months. 90% of this investment was issued to Canadian suppliers, highlighting the depth and breadth of the CANDU supply chain within…

So you're telling me a Canadian MP twice wrote letters in support of a suspected terrorist moving to Canada, which CBSA recommended against? And that that MP is now the Minister of Public Safety, responsible for CBSA? globalnews.ca/news/11287613/…

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Rolling 14-day Ontario power mix:

My ON electricity rpt/est now updated through week 28 (ended July 13 in 2025). Demand up over same week ly (more on that to follow). Nuclear down (2 fewer reactors due to retirement of Pickering A) Gas, and to a lesser extent hydro, stepped in to fill. Exports still avg 1.9 GW

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Rolling 14-day Ontario power mix:

.@holtecintl has told the US @NRCgov it has completed the necessary licensing activities to transition the Palisades #nuclear power plant from decommissioning to operational status, proposing this happens on 25 August tinyurl.com/yw26cm58

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