Scott Luft
Data Manager, Communicator, Advocate for consumers, and nuclear power.
- 'merica needs an HR dep't im🇨🇦o
- (Variety) - President Donald Trump posted a racist video to his Truth Social account late Thursday with an AI-generated video of the Obamas as apes. @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
- Marco Chown Oved had an article in the National Observor yesterday – sorry, just realized this is in the Globe by a similar person – or maybe just a different pseudonym. Anyway… I think the answer to the title is “yes”, and I don’t wish to defend OPG, but “in depth”… 1/6
- I queried Ontario electricity data on costs of supply recovered by sales into the market. through Feb. 4, 2026 has already seen greater revenues than the total in 4 of the previous 10 years. This impacts average pricing, but more so on distribution of costs to classes (A and B)
- Ontario’s electricity sector elite have chosen today to celebrate the completion of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station (DNGS), “months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget.” I am not celebrating with them. www.opg.com/stories/... 1/10
- Ontario electricity in January (IESO-controlled grid): ON demand up 2.3% (315 GWh) down: nuclear (423 GWh), Hydro (220) up: gas (1,031 GWh) Net exports between 1.9 and 2 TWh (as usual) market price up 102.4% (highest since ever) 1/3
- My estimates of ON electricity's global adjustment - imo, some very big calls. $-300 million (the hugest credit in history) $-26/MWh Class B (also a record) those would beat 2005 records big prediction: Class B commodity rate will be lower that Class A rate for 1st time
- Improvement on Ontario Electricity pricing (DA-OZP), but the IESO forecast would still produce the 6th highest average rate in the market's history - with the top 5 coming in the preceding 5 days.
- the good news in Ontario electricity pricing: the average rate dropped 1/3rd from yesterday to today the not-so-good news: today will either be the 4th or the 5th highest rate day in the market's history.
- I apologize for joking the yesterday's slight decline in Ontario's electricity rates was good news. It was only a temporary delay of the guillotine for the few exposed to these rates - which have set a new record today.
- the good news is that average daily Ontario electricity prices today will be lower than yesterday's record high. Less good is that this today be the second highest (Sunday was the third highest...) Bad is natural gas prices for consumers will be headed higher
- good news: Ontario electricity pricing on the day-ahead market are down from yesterday's record high (for a daily average). Today will only be the second-highest rate day! (2 days ago was the third...) ...and your gas bills going to go up too
- The good news is that the average daily gas price today will be lower than yesterday's record high. Less good is that today will be the second highest (Sunday the third highest). Bad news for natural gas consumers is your prices will need to head higher soon
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- Reposted by Scott Luftpretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
- My Ontario electricity reporting/estimates now updating through week 4 - which was a big week in 2025, but a cold expensive weekend pushed demand and pricing past even that. Nuclear was down on the grid - I grudgingly think largely due a Bruce Power choice on outage timing 1/7
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- Record Ontario daily average electricity pricing yesterday, and to quote another Ontarian, up up up🎶 even huger pricing today [old record was from the polar vortex winter of 2014]
- Another first! I noted yesterday that a record was set for generation under the "GAS"* category on the IESO's Ontario electricity grid. I've run queries and find these 2 record hours for GAS were also the first instances of GAS out-producing NUCLEAR on the IESO grid** 1/2
- as a rule/bias... when an entity triples spending on a program in 2 short years, and then decrees the performance from its expanding spend as "Exceptional", I assume its conservation/efficiency. and nonsense
- Didn't take long for the cold snap to lead to a snap upwards in Ontario electricity pricing. These hourly prices for Jan. 25 look about 5 times higher than prices during the milder days of early January. presumably this is driven by natural gas prices
- System operated reports 8,163 MWh of gas from 4-5 pm. that's the 3rd highest hour for electricity from the "gas" category (includes some oil today!) Very near the record from Jan. 22, 2014's Polar vortex (8,478 from 7-8 pm).
- In 2025, Ontario’s electricity sector experienced significant changes across demand, pricing, generation mix, and market structure. Electricity demand from the IESO-controlled grid rose by 3.7%, reaching levels not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis. 1/5
