Converting Largest Coal Plant in North America to Solar Farm

The Ontario Power Generating Plant was once the biggest coal-fired plant based in North America. At one time it could easily produce 4,000 megawatts, but since 2013 it has not been in use, but the good news is that there are new plans for the site and before long it is going to be back in production.

There are changes however as the new site will not utilise coal but will be a solar farm and this is in keeping with the attempts to use less coal; Cleantech Canada is reporting. There are various projects that are part of a solar use project according to the Ontario grid operators Electricity Systems Operator.

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There are 16 contracts included in what is known as the Large Renewable Procurement Program and in total 454.9MW of energy will be provided. As Ontario managed to phase out coal in 2014 and as part of this was the closure of the Nanticoke plant. It is Sun Edison Canadian Construction who are working in partnership with Six Nations Development as well as the Ontario Power Generation. The firms will all receive the same price for the energy that is produced, and that is said to be 15.57 Canadian cents for each kilowatt-hour of energy that is produced. As a result of this, it is unlikely that the Canadian consumer is going to see a lot of a reduction in prices even though there was recently a rise in payment rates.

Story Via; canadianmanufacturing.com

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