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Doing the math (not including ~2400 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 117 MW for the day.

Doing the math (not including ~2600 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 177 MW for the day.

This is the best use of AI videos = education that's fun You can teach anything about the history like this, can't wait for the future

Doing the math (not including ~3000 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 142 MW for the day.

Europe Forgot the Lesson the 1970s Oil Shocks Once Taught The continent answered with reactors, pipeline diplomacy, and offshore drilling, then spent three decades neglecting and dismantling everything it had built. a mega🧵inspired in part by my conversation with Doomberg. The European response to the OPEC embargo was an impressive mobilization that moved decisively and pragmatically taking advantage of the unique conditions available throughout the bloc. France moved decisively launching the The Messmer Plan in direct response to the oil shock. It remains the fastest large-scale nuclear buildout in history. France had little domestic oil, but it had everything else the program required: a large corps of state-trained engineers produced by the Grandes Écoles, heavy industrial capacity rebuilt under the postwar dirigiste economic model, and a nationalized utility in Électricité de France (EDF) already accustomed to executing at the direction of the state rather than waiting on market incentives. Its political class drew the logical conclusion: electrify aggressively around a domestic nuclear base, using a standardized reactor designs that a purpose-built supply chain could replicate at pace. Space heating, water heating, rail and significant portions of industrial process heat were shifted onto the grid as the fleet came online, deliberately substituting domestic electrons for imported hydrocarbons across as much of the economy as the technology of the era allowed. The result over roughly twenty years was 54 operating reactors, an electricity system generating around 75 percent of its output from nuclear, net electricity exports to neighbours who had made different choices, and as an unintentional side effect a per-capita carbon footprint in the power sector that remains among the lowest in the developed world.

"There is this crazy thing that Generation X did"...🤣

The crux of the problem in one article: Carney has done a good job going abroad and drumming up Asian interest in Canadian O&G and pipelines But the conditions to invest and produce are thus far unacceptable to O&G companies in Canada boereport.com/2026/03/23/can…

Doing the math (not including ~2600 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 640 MW for the day.

Doing the math (not including ~2400 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 874 MW for the day.

Pickering Unit 8 had a good run. Not a surprise. Top 5 Ontario Nuclear Run Days • 1106 - Darlington 1 - 2021 • 894 - Pickering 7 - 1994 • 764 - Pickering 8 - 2026 • 730 - Pickering 4 - 2020 • 694 - Bruce 1 - 2020 #Pickering2075 #CANDU 🍁 #NuclearEnergy 🇨🇦

Time to ship some oil

Doing the math (not including ~2900 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 780 MW for the day.

The closed Strait of Hormuz is testing Asia’s energy security. The answer lies across the Pacific—in Canada Canada offers Asian buyers a faster, cheaper and geopolitically safer route that can skip Hormuz and other chokepoints like Malacca and the South China Sea altogether. fortune.com/2026/03/15/asi…

Doing the math (not including ~3700 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 644 MW for the day.

@OPG Pickering Unit 8 went offline overnight. This ended a continuous run of 764 days, 2.1 years, a unit best! Unfortunately, this is one day short of reaching the top 10 nuclear unit continuous run list to match Rajasthan Unit 5's run in 2014. #CANDU 🍁 #NuclearEnergy 🇨🇦

Doing the math (not including ~3900 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 670 MW for the day.

An additional 1.5 million barrels/day of pipeline capacity would add on average 1.1% or $31.4 billion in real GDP per year over the next decade for Canada Nothing else can do that. atb.com/siteassets/bus…

Canada’s oil sands producers have long been the energy world’s ugly ducklings. Investors are falling in love with them again as they’re uniquely positioned to benefit from the disruptions caused by the war in Iran. wsj.com/livecoverage/s…

Doing the math (not including ~2600 MW Labrador import): QC imported a net average of 1335 MW for the day.

RIP Paul Ehrlich. I’m so glad you were so wrong about everything you predicted.