A Renewable Energy Strategy for Ontario
Keeping the Lights On in Ontario while meeting
our Climate Change Commitments
World Wildlife Fund Canada and the Pembina Institute have commissioned a landmark study to forecast three possible futures for Ontario's energy future.
RENEWABLE IS DOABLE confirms that smart, targeted investments in a diverse array of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions over the next twenty years will achieve major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, accelerate the closure of our highly-polluting coal plants, and avoid the need for new nuclear investments.
A greener and more affordable energy future is available.
Here's how we get it.
Packaging a Robust Solution
The key to planning for the longterm is not simply matching future supply and demand by 2027. It is building an optimum 'package' which features faster construction times, flexible production, the lowest risk, the highest reliability, realistic costs, and minimal pollution.
Achieving this requires rigorous advance homework, and sober assessments based on actual performance and conservative forecasts of power output and costs. This is precisely what our study does.
It concludes that a cleaner, greener power system comprised of dozens of diverse 'laptop' power plants across Ontario will work far better, at far less risk and cost, than a dozen monolithic nuclear 'mainframes'.
From WWF Canada-Pembina Institute Renewable Is Doable report.
To view the full report, Click Here
The Renewable Is Doable report is not the only energy strategy that shows that nuclear power does not need be part of Ontario’s energy supply mix.
Follow the following link to the Clean Air Alliance’s 2005 energy plan,
“A New Electricity Strategy for Ontario”, October 2005.
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/resource/newstrategyfinal.pdf
For an important discussion on how Ontario’s electricity supply network can be integrated with neighbouring provinces to satisfy demands, follow the link below for the Corporate Knights report, “A Green Power Corridor”, 2006; www.corporateknights.ca/content/page.asp?name=green_power_corridor
For a look at a terrifying pro-nuclear energy strategy with glaring omissions about the realities of nuclear energy, the nuclear fuel cycle, health impacts and total costs, Click Here.
