The refusal of 9 GW of green hydrogen electrolyzer proposals makes complete sense, and the hydrogen train is just the usual corporate welfare nonsense.
. They said they don’t have enough electricity for it on the one hand, and on the other said they were going to run a hydrogen train experiment and that hydrogen was necessary for some transportation and heavy industry.
That certainly appears contradictory on the surface, even paradoxical. But a bit of history is required to parse why this silliness is playing out the way that it is. Having 10 GW of capacity is still amazing, and indicative of some of the weird energy history in the region. Quebec is already delivering 1.2 GW of capacity to NY, 2.7 MW to Ontario and about 2 GW New England. It’s been trying to sell more of its excess, very cheap, very low carbon electricity to the large population centers to the west and south for decades, with only limited success.
One of the administration’s first acts was cutting up the contracts for 758 renewables facilities and projects in the province and legislating lack of legal recourse, something which pleased the Conservatives’ base but was an absurd choice in the 21st Century, not to mention a deeply hypocritical choice for a purportedly business-friendly government. Naturally, the result is that Ontario is going to be burning vastly more natural gas and its emissions per MWh are going to increase substantially.
To be perfectly fair, the Ford administration is finally starting to open up the potential for more renewables and grid storage. They still have the opportunity to do the wrong thing, and unlike Churchill’s observation about America, they rarely get around to doing the right thing after they have tried everything else. Oh, and every renewable developer in the world is leery of the province because of those 758 ripped up contracts.
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