Published: Nov 12, 2008

By: Cherise Burda, Renewable Is Doable Group

Plugging Ontario Into A Green Future demonstrates that the best opportunity to develop a green energy economy in Ontario is to allow sustainable sources of power to replace ageing nuclear reactors when they are scheduled to shut down beginning in 2013.

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Nov 12, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

Plugging Ontario Into A Green Future demonstrates that the best opportunity to develop a green energy economy in Ontario is to allow sustainable sources of power to replace ageing nuclear reactors when they are scheduled to shut down beginning in 2013. This summary features some of the key findings of the report.

Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Oct 31, 2008

By: Greenpeace

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Sep 10, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Jul 31, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

This report identifies five major flaws in the Ontario Power Authority’s (OPA) planning model and advances alternative green resource portfolios that would meet the terms of the government’s directive at lower financial and environmental cost, and with less risk. The green resource portfolios proposed include a greater emphasis on energy efficiency, renewable energy such as wind and solar power, and Combined Heat and Power. They require no new nuclear resources, and would have lower greenhouse gas emissions than the OPA’s proposed plan.

This document is part of a series of publications submitted to the Ontario Energy Board.

Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Jul 31, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

This report assesses recent cost estimates for new nuclear plants from utilities and investment firms and concludes that that $5000/kW is a reasonable overnight cost, which is double what the number used to compare nuclear costs with other options, including renewable energy.

This document is part of a series of publications submitted to the Ontario Energy Board.

Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Jul 31, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

The development of the Integrated Power System Plan presents Ontario with an unprecedented opportunity to switch from an energy system based on polluting, risky, finite, and in the long run, expensive, fuels, to an energy system that relies on clean, safe, emission-free, abundantly available and cost decreasing, renewable energy sources.
The OPA plan, if accepted, will miss this opportunity through its adherence to an outdated centralized system and its limited understanding of alternative energy systems.

This document is part of a series of publications submitted to the Ontario Energy Board.

Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Jul 31, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

This report assessed the true potential for conservation and energy efficiency in Ontario, which is far above what the Ontario Power Authority has planned. If not corrected, the Plan’s failure to secure all cost-effective conservation opportunities will increase future costs, risks, and harmful environmental impacts.

This document is part of a series of publications submitted to the Ontario Energy Board.

Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Jul 31, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

The proposed IPSP has failed to identify and promote the least cost/lowest pollution approach to providing Ontario’s heat and power, because OPA has not made any attempt to identify the market for Combined Heat and Power (estimated here at 11,400 MW), has ignored the waste energy recycling potential, and has offered no programs that would test either market.

This document is part of a series of publications submitted to the Ontario Energy Board.

Publication Type: Letters & Formal Submissions, Presentations

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Jul 31, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

This report examines the flaws in long range forecasting of electricity demand which lead to failed planning. The great power system expansion plans put forward by Ontario Hydro in the mid-1970’s and then again in the late 1980’s never materialized because they were based on forecasts that turned out to be so far off the mark that none of the dozens of power plants proposed in those earlier efforts was ever built. This report presents similar flaws with current forecasts.

This document is part of a series of publications submitted to the Ontario Energy Board.

Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign

Published: Jul 31, 2008

By: Renewable Is Doable Group

This report addresses the cost implications of the residual radiological risk posed by nuclear generation. “Radiological risk” refers to the potential for, and consequences of, unplanned releases of radioactive material to the environment or within a nuclear facility. “Residual” refers to the risk remaining after implementation of regulations regarding the safety and security of nuclear facilities.

This document is part of a series of publications submitted to the Ontario Energy Board.

Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets

Topic Area: Renewable is Doable Campaign