RE: Nova Scotia - MSAR opportunity?20 Sep 2023 08:23
Vince - found this also:-
Documents filed by Nova Scotia Power show that three of four coal-fired units at the Lingan Generating Station will be converted to heavy fuel oil in 2030 and are scheduled to operate until 2050.
“I have to say, I was a bit surprised,” Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board member Jennifer Nicholson said at a recent hearing. “It doesn’t really seem a lot cleaner.”
David Pickles, chief operating officer of the privately owned utility, responded to Nicholson by explaining that the company is required by federal regulation to stop burning coal by 2030.
In 2016, the federal government announced coal would be entirely phased out by 2030, a move estimated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 100 million tonnes over the following two decades.
Pickles told the hearing it would be less expensive to convert its coal-burning generating station than to replace it, as the Cape Breton facility already has the capacity to run on oil. The emissions from coal and heavy fuel oil are comparable, he added, but the facility has “a really low utilization rate” and is usually only used to generate reserve electricity during the coldest days of winter.
Thomas Arnason McNeil, climate policy coordinator at the Halifax-based Ecology Action Centre, said NS Power is “getting around” coal restrictions by using a fossil fuel with comparable emission levels.
“It’s absolutely outrageous,” he said in an interview. “It would be laughable if it wasn’t so dire, I think, and disturbing, quite frankly.”
https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/07/12/nova-scotia-to-convert-cape-breton-coal-plant-to-burn-oil/
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