Standard Offer Contracts – the Future for Renewable Generation?

A detailed look at the new Standard Offer Contracts for small-scale renewable electrical power generation in Ontario, Canada. Although these contracts are being promoted as a way for individuals to feed their own renewable elctricity into the grid, the barriers to entry are so high that they will not prove terribly useful in this endeavour.read …

Quick Links – Norks, Worms, and Dads turned Commander-in-Chief

(This post created using Google Docs.. cool webapp) Some interesting happenings and events in the past few days. Lets just run through a few: Last Thursday, 4 US F-15s and 2 Canadian CF-18s "intercepted" a Russian "Bear" bomber, as it cruised close to Alaskan airspace. Not a serious or threatening incident, but one that is …