The foundational goal of a…

The foundational goal of a world class power system has to be reliably. Manufacturing is impossible without a reliable grid and price is always a factor.

Price: A certain amount of redundancy is necessary for maintenance, peak demand and power outages. Historically Ontario had a low carbon energy system with nuclear and hydro. Now we have expensive long term contracts with wind and solar generation and OPG spills water, streams off nulear and dumps surplus power into neighboring jurisdictions at a huge cost to ratepayers.
The duplication in the Ontario power system from the green energy fiasco costs ratepayers $6 billion/year in subsidies.
And the “the Global Adjustment fees, covering the excess payments to generators over the market price, cost consumers $37 billion during that period, and are projected to cost another $133 billion from 2015 to 2032.”
(Auditor General - Bonnie Lysyk 2015)

Energy from wind is not fit for purpose with production at 28% of the name plate capacity and dependancy on the vagrancy of the wind. The carbon footprint of wind and solar must include cradle to grave production. And after a limited lifespan the blades (and solar panels) are discarded as toxic waste. So not green, not clean and certainly not a cheap energy source.

If you consider reliability- not one more wind turbine should be added to the power supply for Ontario. When they come to the end of their contracts have them demolished.
If we get rid of wind generation some of the 19 gas plants will also be redundant but some can provide the peak power needed for summer heatwaves and winter storms.
In our rush to reduce the carbon footprint of the North American lifestyle we need dependable power from nuclear and hydro with natural gas backup. Or we will find ourselves freezing in the dark.