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Look forward to reading that Big Gav,
“Here in Ontario, there's a fundamental paradigm shift taking place,” said Kristopher Stevens I wouyld like to see some more analysis on this too,
The shift taking place in Ontario (hopefully, unless the centralists hold sway for another decade or two) is one we're going to see everywhere.
The old view of the grid - fixed supply and variable demand, with a "base" level being focussed on myopically as some sort of determining factor (aka "the baseload fallacy"), and often inflated by artificially low off-peak pricing - is going to be replaced by one where both supply and demand are free variables, and price is set based on both of these - and then used as a signal by demand management "smarts" in consumer equipment and the grid to balance them out.
The old model is one those with a centralised / planned worldview want to remain in. The new world is a network model more attuned to the world of the internet - a real energy market, with node bahaviour based on the rules of supply and demand.
The old model has as much of a future as the Soviet Union (and Chernobyl) did...
Anyway - I'll be doing a post on the future of the grid at some point in the next few months, stay tuned :-)