Ontario's Long Term Energy Supply Plan

In 2006, the Minister of Energy directed the Ontario Power Authority (the OPA) to develop an Integrated Power System Plan (the IPSP) that focused on creating a sustainable energy supply in the Province over the next twenty years. In 2007, an IPSP was introduced to the Ontario Energy Board (the OEB), but the hearings were subsequently suspended. On November 23, 2010, the Province released a long-term energy supply plan (the Plan) that is intended to address developments in technology, the uptake of renewable energy arising out of the Province's feed-in tariff program (the FIT Program), and shifts in demographics and the economy since the release of the IPSP in 2007. A proposed supply mix directive based on the Plan has been posted on the Environmental Registry for a forty-five day comment period ending January 7, 2011, after which time the directive will be finalized and issued to the OPA. The OPA is to develop an IPSP to be submitted to the OEB for review.