Ontario has just unveiled the largest electrical-grid battery project in Canada

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It’s clean. It’s green. And it’s being hailed as an act of reconciliation between Canada’s settler and Indigenous populations. Ontario has just unveiled the largest electrical-grid battery project in Canada.

OHSWEKEN, Ont.—It’s clean. It’s green. And it’s being hailed as an act of reconciliation between Canada’s settler and Indigenous populations.

“It’s going to bring investments and jobs,” said Chief Mark Hill. “But the bigger picture is that it’s going to help all Ontarians. When it goes online in 2025, the project will more than double the amount of energy storage currently on Ontario’s grid from 225 megawatts to 475 megawatts. “This is what we need to store that power so we’re not shipping it off to neighbouring jurisdictions at a loss,” said Smith. “We’ll be able to capture that power and use it during peak demand times to help make our system more efficient and benefit ratepayers.”

After four years of negotiations with the Independent Electricity System Operator and the province, the regulations were established for battery farms to sell electricity into the grid just like nuclear or natural gas generators.The stage is now set for many more battery projects that could go a long way to decarbonizing Ontario’s electricity system, as the province has announced it will procure an additional“It’s really easy. It’ll be the best tool in the toolbox for the IESO,” Verschuren said.

Premier Doug Ford often refers to Ontario’s grid as clean because it is more than 90 per cent non-emitting, but fails to mention that“We need to continue to find ways to keep our energy supply clean and green so we can strengthen the Ontario advantage,” he said Friday.mandate 100 per cent non-emitting grids nationwide by 2035Six Nations has already invested in almost one gigawatt of renewable generation and sees the battery storage product as the next logical step.

 

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So MarcoOved just a small correction, I know it “feels accurate” but it’s actually an inaccurate lobbyist phrase to say “only happening when the sun shines and the wind blows” Because the Sun doesn’t ever stop shining…technically even at midnight, we get light from the sun

Guarenteed they will mess this up as well. Corruption will be found if we follow the money.

That’s some very sick propaganda wowwww. ‘To save the Human Race’ lolz 😂🤡. You mis-spelled Digital Enslavement. ClimateHoax WealthTransfer RIPCanada

Great project but, 'Settler population'? What the actual f*ck are you saying? 'settlers'? there's no effing settlers anymore, stop living in the past and get a grip, we're Canadians GetAGrip Canada

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