One of many numbers produced for Ontario’s electricity sector is 7.0106465974584 MT CO2e Emissions (million Metric Tonnes).

Another is 14.8 TWh(million megawatt-hours) from the IESO’s summary of 2014 Electricity Production.

Punch figures into a calculator and the emissions intensity is around 470 grams/kWh.

In 2012 Canada’s government introduced standards for new power plants, which the bright whites of Canada’s so-called environmental organizations condescended on as not firm enough, particularly because they were less strict than in a draft proposal.

The rules , promulgated under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA, 1999), set a performance standard of 420 tonnes/GWh, which is the emissions intensity level of Natural Gas Combined Cycle technology, the government said—but it is much higher than the of 375 tonnes/GWh limit proposed in the draft rule…. Power Magazine

I don’t want to say I told you so - about something as boring as an emissions intensity figure.

I did tell, in 2012, of Canada’s ENGO’s Offensive Response to New Regulations for coal-fired generators.

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NOTE: numbers used to calculate emissions intensity are from spreadsheet released with Q4 2014 Ontario Energy Report. The figure for gas-fired generation is 14,805,735 megawatt-hours.