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 …

How to prepare communities for Peak Oil

I’m seriously thinking of putting together a small presentation for my City Council. In it, I will introduce the possibility of Peak Oil and it’s worst case scenarios for our City. I don’t believe scare tactics will ever work to really make people understand just how serious Peak Oil and the subsequent Decline will be… …