Ontario’s government said that without new gas-fired capacity, the province faces ‘emergency actions such as conservation appeals and rotating blackouts to stabilize the grid’
Ontario will procure additional electricity from natural-gas generation, the provincial government announced Friday, a plan that will increase greenhouse-gas emissions from the electricity sector.
“An unreliable system with brownouts and blackouts is a non-starter for our government,” Minister of Energy Todd Smith said in a statement. “With today’s actions, we are ensuring that the electricity will continue to be there for families and businesses when they flip the switch.” “Natural gas is uniquely positioned to allow the system to keep pace with the rapidly growing economy and the electrification that we expect in the near term,” Mr. Farmer told reporters during a briefing. “And there is currently no like-for-like replacement for natural gas that can provide all of the services that gas can provide.”
Ontario electrical grid features very little storage capacity – less than 100 megawatts. Mr. Farmer said the IESO believes storage “very much will be the future of the electricity system, complementing all of the other resource types in order to provide reliability.” Some municipalities and various organizations, including Environmental Defence Canada and The Atmospheric Fund, oppose new gas generation; indeed, several want governments to phase it out quickly. Common objections include fears that new gas plants will become “stranded assets” that will be retired early, leaving ratepayers on the hook.
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