What is the government doing to support renewable energy?
The Ontario government is committed to the development of new renewable sources of electricity generation. Ontario is on target to meet its commitments to double renewable energy in the province to 15,700 megawatts by 2025 and to bring on 2,700 megawatts of new, renewable power by 2010. In addition, the Minister of energy and Infrastructure has directed the Ontario Power Authority to examine how even more renewable energy can be included in the province’s energy supply plan. In late 2008, Ontario had more than 950 MW of wind power online, placing it first among the provinces in wind capacity. In addition, there are signed contracts for an additional 1,300 MW of wind power from large and small wind projects. In 2007, the power provided from wind generation in Ontario more than doubled (about a terawatt-hour) – equivalent to the annual use of about 100,000 homes. By next summer Ontario is expected to have about 1,200 MW of wind power online. This will represent an 80-fold increase from 2
