Ontario's Energy Conundrum

Ontario can't seem to make up its mind about energy. Partway
through a historic nuclear-powered coal phaseout, the province
adopted the Green Energy Act (GEA), which established costly
feed-in-tariffs for renewables in the footsteps of Germany's
Energiewende. Now, three years after rising energy costs prompted
the GEA's repeal, the planned 2025 closure of the 3.1 GW
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is leaving Ontario with no
option to meet coming capacity shortfalls without winding back
climate progress by burning much, much more gas.


Chris Benedetti, Managing Partner at Ontario-based Sussex
Strategy Group and Head of its Energy and Environment Practice,
extracts lessons from the fascinating energy case study that is
this Canadian province.


Note: This episode was recorded on June 1, 2022 and contains
outdated information pertaining to provincial elections.