Title: Ensuring Green Power Supplies in Ontario: Responding to Perverse Subsidies and Other Market Inequities
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Author: Christine Elwell, Tyson Dyck
Date: October 2003
ISBN#: 1-896588-21-2
Keywords: green power, renewable energy, alternative energy, power supply, electricity, energy efficiency, Ontario Select Committee, coal-fired, nuclear, Ontario Power Generation, Ontario Energy Board
Description: This paper explores the major government policy and legal strategies necessary to advance sustainable energy development, create jobs and protect the public interest in the newly opened electricity market in Ontario. Our research finds that a variety of institutional factors impede the adoption of low-environmental impact renewable energy in the Ontario market.