With all the fanfare about renewable energy, the report released
by the Ontario Government on October 26, 2017, is illuminating.
Currently, nuclear energy continues to supply the greatest
electricity generation in the Province at 91.7 terawatt hours,
followed by water at 36.5, natural gas at 12.8, wind at 10.7, solar
at 3.5, biomass at 0.7, other at 0.7 and conservation at 14.7. The
following are excerpts from the just released plan as they relate
to nuclear energy:
Maintaining a Secure Source of Clean Energy for Ontario –
The Government's View
"The most cost-effective option for producing the baseload
generation the province needs while releasing no GHG emissions, is
to refurbish Ontario's nuclear generating stations. Ontario is
moving forward with the plans laid out in the 2013 LTEP to
refurbish a total of ten nuclear units between 2016 and 2033 - four
units at Darlington and six units at Bruce."
