High electricity prices were responsible for roughly 75,000 job losses in the province’s manufacturing sector.
feed-in-tariffs
September 21, 2018
9:09AM
June 5, 2017
10:50AM
By subsidizing wind and solar power, the government undercuts its own policy.
May 2, 2013
2:00AM
In 2009, under the Premiership of Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario legislature passed the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA), an Act that aimed to increase Ontarios use of renewable energy such as wind power, solar power, biofuels, and small-scale hydropower. The centerpiece of the Act is a schedule of subsidized electricity purchase contracts called Feed-in-Tariffs that provide long-term guarantees of above-market rates for power generated by those renewables.