Today, Ontarians took a moment of silence to honour our veterans. On Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, 2024 at 11 a.m., the IESO control room saw a decrease of about 300 MW in electricity demand as we honoured those who gave their lives to serve our country. Lest we forget.
Devashish Paul
1mo
That would be like 43000 cars stopped charging at level 2 or two Stelcos shut off or several airports closed down (probably like all the airports in Ontario)!!! If all the electric buses in Ontario stopped charging on 100kW chargers that would only add up to around 20MW though so they are not much of a challenge to the grid yet
Philippe Dunsky
1mo
Thanks, Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). Fascinating results, and great use of data. Naysayers be damned!
Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) Very interesting results, it will be also interesting to compare this dip to the daily curve during that same hour and also to last year on Nov 11 (same hour) - so we can isolate the true impact of the silence - is such analysis available?
Daren Crawford
1mo
An example of a universal reaction that we normally never see
Gregory Firlotte
1mo
Thats amazing info 👍
Josh Cobden
1mo
Nice use of data!
Data Strategist at emissionTrak
1moThat 300 MW down-blip in grid electricity demand was overwhelmed by an up-blip in demand for how much transport power? Each SUV driving downtown to the war memorial used a baseload of 9 kW, met with gasoline. Ottawa at 11:11 a.m., Armistice Time, was about 6C -- 20C below the human confort zone. Nobody in Ottawa lives at the Cenotaph. Most downtowners don't participate in the ceremony, at least not physically. Most of those who physically attended drove in, from areas outside downtown. So, across the province, how much gasoline power brought people to the local cenotaph? More than 300 MW? Less?