Ontario will eventually have…

Ontario will eventually have to be 100% renewable in energy supply, by definition, since no unrenewable energy can persist forever.

Therefore, we should plan for that starting now, look at how to either create (and store), or purchase (from other provinces/states) enough renewable energy to supply all our needs. We should also work much harder to reduce the amount of electricity we need through conservation, through efficiency, and through demand management.

We must NOT build any new non-renewable energy infrastructure or supply. We must not build any new nuclear power, which is expensive and ties us into long-term fixed-amount centralized supply in contradiction to the evolving world of microgrids, local renewable power production, and reduced need for kw/h per person or per $GDP. We should not be refurbishing another set of nuclear plants; we should retire them instead, and purchase clean hydro from Quebec or Manitoba to replace their supply.

We should be very wary of any so-called "bridge" measures that involve using more fossil fuels, switching from one fossil fuel to another, "cleaner" one, or building new fossil infrastructure which will be stranded as we shift to 100% renewable. Instead, we should build new electricity storage infrastructure to make better use of our excess supply and save it for our own use in times of peak demand.

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