Ontario can reap multi-billion dollar electricity savings: Ontario's electricity bills can be reduced by $1.7 billion to $9.1 billion per year by 2030 by importing water power from Quebec and investing in energy efficiency and natural gas-fired combined heat and power plants instead of continued wasteful spending on nuclear power. Read all about it in OCAA’s new report: Energizing the Drummond Report: How Ontario can reap multi-billion dollar electricity savings.
Let's cut some real waste
The provincial government's Electricity Sector Review will focus on measures responsible for just over 10% of the average electricity bill while ignoring generation costs that account for 80% of our electricity costs. The review, led by the former head of the Canadian Nuclear Association, will not even consider the government's costly and poorly thought out plan to build and refurbish nuclear units despite the availability of numerous cheaper and safer options. Order or new pamphlet and help the McGuinty government get its priorities straight!
Making energy efficiency work for Ontario's economy
How Ontario can create thousands of new jobs, reduce government deficits
and grow its economy by embracing energy efficiency
Our report looks at how five key actions can deliver enormous finanacial benefits for Ontario while also helping our climate and our environment.
Read the accompanying analysis of the economic impact of increased energy efficiency produced by the Centre for Spatial Economics, one of Ontario's top economic forecasters.
Conservation vs. New Supply factsheet: This factsheet summarizes the Ontario Power Authority's spending on new supply sources compared to its spending on efficiency and conservation methods.
OCAA Chair Jack Gibbons on how Ontario can phase out nuclear power:
Darlington Re-Build Could Cost $21 to $35 Billion
OPG is seeking permission from the Ontario Energy Board to raise its rates commencing March 2011 to start paying for the Darlington Re-Build project. According to OPG, its proposal to extend the operating life of Darlington by 30 years will cost $8.5 to $14 billion. However, as this OCAA report notes, every single nuclear project in Ontario’s history has gone over budget and the actual costs of Ontario’s nuclear projects have been 2.5 times greater than the original cost estimates.
Powerful Options: A review of Ontario’s options for replacing aging nuclear plants
This new report discusses how hydro-electricity imports from Quebec and the development of the Lower Churchill Falls Project in Labrador can replace Ontario’s aging nuclear. In fact, it finds that Ontario has a number of viable options for replacing nuclear that are available now at a lower cost than building new nuclear reactors.
Meanwhile, Ontario Power Generation has been paid close to a billion dollars to keep unneeded coal plants open. Send a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty asking him to shutdown unnecessary coal units today!
Higher Profits and Lower Bills: A New Electricity Strategy for Hydro Quebec
Hydro Quebec’s profits will fall by 24% and its rates will rise by 8% according to this new report released by Equiterre and the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA). Having developed all of the province’s low-cost hydro-electric resources, Hydro Quebec can no longer increase its profits and lower its rates by building new low-cost hydro facilities.
Coal generation provided less than 3% of Ontario's electricity in 2011.We can permanently phase out coal today!
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