The Ford government’s unwillingness to consider different approaches to meeting the province’s electricity needs is particularly surprising given the range of alternatives available to it. Opinion by Mark Winfield
Two recent new studies have highlighted a range of additional possibilities. The first, completed for the IESO, is focused on the potential contributions of what are broadly termed — things like rooftop solar systems, household and facility-level energy storage and even the use of parked electric vehicles as storage resources.
The study concludes that “there is ample cost-effective DER capacity to meet or exceed all incremental system needs under all scenarios” — potentially removing the need for new gas-fired generation and the Darlington new reactor project.looking at options for a net-zero electricity grid for Canada by 2035. In Ontario’s case, a net-zero grid that phases out both fossil fuel and nuclear generation by mid-century emerges as a viable and economic option.
Unfortunately, these possibilities around energy efficiency, the relationship with Quebec, DERs, and an expanded role for renewables seem to continue to fall on deaf ears in the province. The Ford government has a wide range of options before it. But so far, it has given little indication of a willingness to change course from its current high-cost, high-risk and high-emissions trajectory.
Mark Winfield is a professor of Environmental and Urban Change at York University and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Energy Initiative.
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