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Ontario begins to unshackle nuclear electricity plants
The Ontario government decision this week to lease some of its troubled nuclear electricity plants to British Energy signals a real beginning to the end of a monopoly that has shackled the province with almost C$21bn ($14.2bn) debt.
But a thick fog on the distribution side of Ontario’s C$9bn electricity market is muffling the glow produced by the progress in reducing the state’s role in generation.
British Energy must earn our trust
God knows there’s no defending Ontario Hydro’s safety record managing its nuclear facilities. But British Energy’s track record isn’t spotless either, and Canadians need to carefully monitor the province’s first effort at hiring a private company to manage a nuclear plant.
The British are way ahead of Canada in the privatization game. British Energy, now a publicly traded company, runs eight nuclear sites in Britain and has signed deals with an American partner to buy five nuclear plants in the United States.
In shape for a hydro war
Ron 0sborne has one of the most unusual challenges of any chief executive in Canada: his primary job is to create competition for the company he runs.
Leasing the Bruce Nuclear Power plant to British Energy
In the wake of the announcement that Ontario Power Generation (Ontario Hydro successor company) will lease the Bruce Nuclear Power plant to British Energy, Norm Rubin, Director of Nuclear Research for Energy Probe appeared in:
Macleans Magazine
The Toronto Star
The Globe & Mail
The National Post
EYE Magazine
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Provinces plan joint power grid
Ontario-Quebec project would cross wetlands
Ontario’s Hydro One is teaming up with Hydro-Quebec to build two new $304-million cross-border transmission lines the companies hope will reduce electricity prices, increase reliability and provide backup in emergencies.
TransAlta to build Ontario power plant
Plans to spend $400-million on country’s largest co-generation facility.
TransAlta Corp. said yesterday that it plans to spend $400-million on a Sarnia, Ont., power project that could produce enough electricity to light up a city of 500,000.
Observers said the Calgary-based company’s plans to build, own and operate what will be Canada’s largest co-generation plant is a sign that Ontario’s emerging open market for electricity is catching fire.
Hydro's plan to battle smog scorned
May prolong coal-fired plants
Environmentalists greeted a $250 million emissions-reduction plan by Ontario’s largest power producer yesterday with scorn and suspicion.
Ontario Power Generation plans to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions at its coal-fired Nanticoke, Lambton and Lakeview stations by 13,000 tonnes a year, president and chief executive Ron Osborne announced yesterday.
Nuclear business deals fusing as Ontario Hydro goes private
The world of privately owned nuclear plants that Ontario is about to enter is going through a consolidation as companies build worldwide conglomerates that dwarf the province’s utility.
"There’s a lot of buying and selling going on," said Pat Kane, an analyst with Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. For the last three years or so, American state governments have been deregulating the electricity sector, leading to a wave of utilities selling nuclear reactors.
Cameco joins nuclear family
Uranium supplier invests $100 million in Ontario plants
Cameco Corp. plans to take its first plunge into nuclear power generation with a $100-million investment in the Bruce nuclear plants of Ontario.
Cameco announced Thursday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with British Energy PLC to take a 15 per cent interest in a new company, Bruce Power Partnership. The partnership was established to lease and operate the reactors.
Ontario's electricity liberalization: from promise to crisis (part 3)
Eight Lessons for Electricity Liberalization in Atlantic Canada
- Define a public interest mandate for electricity liberalization.
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