Dimming the Lights for Earth Hour
Photo courtesy earthhour.org
Prince George, B.C. – British Columbians throughout the province will be turning off lights and powering down electronics for Earth Hour 2016 tonight.
It will take place between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and is taking place globally in an effort to conserve energy and to show support for climate change action.
15 megawatt hours of electricity was saved through Earth Hour in B.C. last year, reducing the overall provincial electricity load by 0.2% – the equivalent of about 680,000 LED light bulbs.
Whistler and Invermere saw the greatest reductions at 7.2% and 6.7% respectively. Savings in Prince George however were so minimal that it failed to show up on a list of 65 communities around the province which were noted by BC Hydro.
Spokesperson Bob Gammer says BC Hydro is taking “a low-key approach” this time around and won’t be compiling that list this year.
“But what we are doing is we are encouraging customers to go on their MyHydro account and look at their own personal consumption,” he says.
“And you can track your own savings by looking Sunday morning at your consumption on Saturday night during Earth Hour and then check that against the Saturday night previous and see how much you were able to save.”
The City of Prince George plans to observe Earth Hour by turning out the lights outside City Hall (though this won’t include the parking lot, the Cenotaph and related grounds lighting).
Comments
Right!
I don’t save power and HYDRO raises my rates…
I save power and HYDRO raises my rates
Soy BC Hydro I will continue to live my life power wise as I always do and if that means you have less power to send to the states at a reduced rate
Tough bananas
At 8:30pm–I need lights on!!! Duh
So people will light some candles and create more co2 and pm2.5 for the atmosphere by showing support for climate change? I am wondering who came up with this one
Those who’ve been educated beyond their intelligence.
I would suggest it was put forward by those with already dim bulbs.
Best comment EVER, haha!
I was going to turn my furnace off and heat my house with my fireplace. I think everyone should do that
North Korea should get an award for the lowest power consumption during earth hour, oh wait that is the norm.
Wonder what the average North Korean and the other 1.5 billion that have no electricity think of earth hour? Oh wait the delusional greenies will leave their well lit homes and do a photo op in some poor economically depressed area while handing over a solar panel and a couple of light bulbs. They will then dash back to their hotel, toast each other with wine for their good deed before jumping on the carbon trail back to their well lit homes. A bunch of hypocrits too dumb to see the irony.
It’s 1.2 billion and falling that are without electricity . Each one of those panels and couple of bulbs will replace ~ 3000 litres of kerosene over the life time of the panels +- 25 years and there by pulling the owner out of energy poverty . They are being deployed in the millions across the globe . The USA is going to double its capacity this year and so is China . Only a landlubber used car salesmut like you can’t tell which way the tide is moving . Almost all of those 1.2 billion burn kerosene for light . Think them not burning it isn’t changing things ? Think again .
Looks like we better hurry up and build Site C. California might need more electricity from us as it looks like some of their “green” efforts aren’t doing as well as they had expected!
By Cassandra Sweet, Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2016
Ivanpah Solar Plant May Be Forced to Shut Down
Federally backed project asks California regulators for more time to sort out its problems.
A federally backed, $2.2 billion solar project in the California desert isn’t producing the electricity it is contractually required to deliver to PG&E Corp., which says the solar plant may be forced to shut down if it doesn’t receive a break Thursday from state regulators.
ht tp://www.wsj.com/articles/ivanpah-solar-plant-may-be-forced-to-shut-down-1458170858
This solar plant has had ongoing problems from the beginning!
by Pete Danko, Breaking Energy, October 30, 2014, gtm (Green Tech Media)
More Problems for CSP: Ivanpah Solar Plant Falling Short of Expected Electricity Production
Growing pains or chronic problems for the landmark concentrating solar power plant?
Whether scorched birds are a major issue at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California is a matter of dispute. But the “power tower” solar plant and its owners — NRG Energy, Google and BrightSource Energy — might have an even more fundamental problem on their hands: generating adequate electricity.
The Mojave Desert plant, built with the aid of a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee, kicked off commercial operation at the tail end of December 2013, and for the eight-month period from January through August, its three units generated 254,263 megawatt-hours of electricity, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. That’s roughly one-quarter of the annual 1 million-plus megawatt-hours that had been anticipated.
ht tp://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ivanpah-solar-plant-falling-short-of-expected-electricity-production
HG this is a tiny little joke when compared to the California 16 million mega watt solar fleet . It’s not going away . There are also windmills being dismantled and replaced because of the dramatic improvement made to the technology over the years . And the best is yet to come . Thankfully the human under achiever gene is a rare if noisy condition . U.S. Humans are awesome . We have a great deal to be proud of . Collectively we can do anything we put our minds to .
Yep like a I said a couple of light bulbs, wow. Still burning kerosene, wood and animal dung for cooking and heat. Build bulk relatively cheap bulk power, coal plants, nuclear just like India and China.
Ataloss you never describe your system or costs, oh wait you discovered how much solar costs, scary heh. Solar is only a very small percentage of world generation, costly, inefficient, non dispatchable and only exists with high subsidies.
Where ever so called renewables have been heavily invested in, power rates have gone through the roof.
Name calling, that shows the weakness of your argument.
Ataloss, you refer to a 2.2 BILLION Dollar project as “a tiny little joke”?
Haha, you’re hilarious!
We are going to build Site C for 8.3 Billion. Site C will have an 1100 MW capacity and a projected annual output of 5,100 GWh of electricity.
At 2.2 Billion, Ivanpah’s generation, even on it’s sunniest days, would only translate to annual electricity output of less than 600,000 MWh!
Seems to me that Site C will produce far more electricity at a much lower cost that a green project like Ivanpah!
By the way, Ivanpah uses Natural Gas for back up on cloudy days!
So Ataloss, explain to me why it is that you oppose Site C?
The ivanpah plants are frankenplants just like nuclear and could only exist with gov. cash . Solar panels already make them obsolete. As for site-C ? I like farmland . Far too much bottomland has been lost . Far too many wild stretches of rivers have been lost . Far too many rivers have been destroyed . When is enough enough ?
Ataloss, your comment that the ivanpah plants are frankenplants is absolutely ridiculous! Ridiculous and hilarious!
This plant was only completed and brought into commercial operation at the tailend of 2013! 2013! That’s only 2 years ago!
Ataloss, clearly you’ll state anything, absolutely anything in defence of your obsessed positions, haha! You’re as bad as Suzuki, Al Gore, Neil Young, Leonardo Decaprio, et al!
I believe that most of us are in agreement that we all need to do our part to reduce, reuse, recycle, conserve, etc., but come on, Ataloss, get real!
Frankenplants? Built and brought into operation at the end of 2013! Only 2 years ago? Hahahaha!
For Ataloss
An about face by China on solar power
CHINA TO DROP SOLAR ENERGY TO FOCUS ON NUCLEAR POWER
Asia Pulse
China will accelerate the use of new-energy sources such as nuclear energy and put an end to blind expansion in industries such as solar energy and wind power in 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says in a government report published on March 5.
China will instead develop nuclear power in 2012, actively develop hydroelectric power, tackle key problems more quickly in the exploration and development of shale gas, and increase the share of new energy and renewable energy in total energy consumption.
The guidance indicates a new trend for new-energy and renewable energy development in China from 2012. Analysts believe that the development of the solar and wind power industries will stabilize while hydropower will have the top priority in renewable energy development in China.
— Hydropower to contribute two-thirds of renewable energy
According to China’s development plan for 2011-2015, China aims to increase the share of renewable energy consumption to 11.4 per cent of total energy consumption in China by the end of 2015.
Last year China added 15.1 gigawatt capacity to their 43.2 gigawatt capacity . That amounts to a 13 fold increase since 2011 . One of the benefits is the water lost to generation can instead be used for irrigation . This article that you cut and pasted looks like a zero hedge piece .
Ataloss have a look at this graph, if you look with a magnifying glass you might see China’s solar generation compared to the whole energy mix. Your numbers sound impressive by themselves but when compared to the whole mix it aint nothing.
Again how is your system?
ht tp://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/chinas-new-energy-plan-forecasts-big-rise-in-co2-emissions/
Just can’t make this stuff up
ht tp://www.infowars.com/swedish-town-cancels-earth-hour-nobody-wants-to-turn-off-lights-too-scared-of-violent-migrants/
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