I'm a Professional Engineer…

I'm a Professional Engineer specializing in large wind energy integration. Because of the Government's change in policies, I'm left without work. As a former auditor of renewable energy domestic content, I saw how many jobs were created and sustained by renewable energy. Family farms remained viable because of lease payments from generation facilities. This option is now gone, all due to lack of will from Government.

Ontario needs to look properly at conservation. Very few of the scenarios in the the LTEP considered conservation properly, and only one considered an overall reduction in demand as a long term strategy. As the province's demand becomes less baseload and more peaks, large investment in maintaining non-manoeuvrable nuclear facilities makes little sense. Ontario's nuclear plants are already causing issues during low demand, and this situation cannot be blamed on renewables. Our current path is not sustainable.

While I am a Professional Engineer, I am not a member of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE). I disagree strongly with their stance on energy policy, which is more aligned towards keeping their members in jobs at OPG than what's good for the province. I'm sure OSPE have produced a fulsome response to this consultation, and if it's similar to their previous work, it will likely be based on cherry-picking data, conveniently forgetting externalities, and assigning all exports to renewables.

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