July, 2023 "The idea was…

July, 2023 "The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment....When you buy one, you’re really just buying a piece of paper or a PDF and that certificate represents in theory one green megawatt hour. "

Is the Ontario Government actually saying, “We can say we’re green. We can say we’re not emitting anything because now we can use as much electricity as we want no matter how dirty it is. And if we just buy some certificates, now all of a sudden we’re clean. We’re absolved of responsibility for climate change.” ? If so then ERO 019-7853 is wrong.
https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green

I cannot see how ERO 019-7853 can justify the use of energy credits.

The intent of the GA is to have those who use power pay proportionally so that energy consumption within the peak 5 hours is the most expensive. It appears that an ICI could just contract directly with a wind company or solar company and thus encourage even more intermittent, unreliable turbines/solar to be built as there is nothing in ERO 429/04 to indicate that this contracted power has to be produced during those 5 hour peaks. Those peaks are most likely during the daytime and wind produces best when demand is low and out of phase.

The GA process identifies that all costs not absorbed by Class A for the GA will be passed on to Class B which is the average consumer and this is not acceptable.

A reminder that renewables do not actually help climate change but in fact add to it as natural gas plants are required for backup.

The average consumer should not have to bear yet another financial burden for power; cannot afford any more energy increases and shifting costs to the tax base. Shifting the financial burden to Class B takes away from much needed social programs (health and education) and affects affordability and basic needs.