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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:
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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.
Ontario's electricity liberalization: from promise to crisis (part 2)
Energy Probe does not claim that its analysis is definitive. Significant gaps in the financial reports exist. One difficulty is that revenues for OEFC are not sufficiently disaggregated in the reports we have obtained to allow them to be reconciled with the reports of the other Hydro successors. OEFC’s own 15 month income statement appears to contain an internal discrepancy of $40 million.
Ontario's electricity liberalization: from promise to crisis (part 1)
This speech, fully titled "Ontario’s Electricity Liberalization: From Promise to Crisis and Lessons for Atlantic Canada", was delivered by Thomas Adams(1), Executive Director, Energy Probe, for "Plugging in Atlantic Canada", a conference presented by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) and the Electricity Consumers Alliance of Nova Scotia (ECANS).
Introduction
Atlantic Canada should aim for regional pwr mkt-thinktank
TORONTO -(Dow Jones)- Atlantic Canada should aim for a regional power market as it moves toward liberalization, rather than doing things province by province, an energy industry thinktank said Friday.
"An interjurisdictional market reduces the grip of politicians," as seen in the experience of PJM and Australia, said Tom Adams, executive director of Toronto-based Energy Probe. A broader market will also have practical advantages, including spreading out set-up costs, Adams said.
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