Beyond the sprawling nuclear plants and waterfalls that generate most of the province’s electricity sit the batteries, the underground caverns storing compressed air to generate electricity, and the spinning flywheels waiting to store energy at times of low demand and inject it back into the system when needed.
Energy Minister Todd Smith has directed the IESO to secure 1,500 megawatts of new natural gas capacity between 2025 and 2027, along with 2,500 megawatts of clean technology such as energy storage, which together would be enough to power the city of Toronto.Smith said in an interview that it's the largest active procurement for energy storage in North America.
Justin Rangooni, the executive director of Energy Storage Canada, said because of the relatively tight timelines, the 2,500 megawatts is likely to be mostly lithium batteries. But there are many other ways to store energy, other than a simple battery. Flywheels are large spinning tops that can store kinetic energy, which can be used to power a turbine and produce electricity. A flywheel facility in Minto, Ont., also installed solar panels on its roof and became the first solar storage hybrid facility in Ontario, said a top IESO official.
The small amount of storage already in the system provides more fine tuning of the electricity system, whereas 2,500 megawatts will be a more "foundational" part of the toolkit, said Sparkes. "If we can enable those batteries to work together in aggregation, or work with other types of technologies like solar or smart building systems in a configuration, like a group of technologies, that becomes a virtual power plant," Sparkes said.
"As you had refrigeration, you could store your commodity and that changed the distribution channels of it. So I believe that energy storage is going to radically change the distribution channels of energy."
So your saying people with wood burning stoves will be ok and not freeze to death
hmmm......
ONE nuclear plant provides 14% of the provinces electricity!! So why not build a couple more nuclear plants? Problem solved. What is wrong with this country, insanity! Insanity!!
Yeah, and a great excuse to likely try to justify price increases.
Also....stop selling our power elsewhere.
But mandate EV's 🤦🏼♀️
But mandated 'all electric' vehicles by 2055? Wake up people, time to take off those Rose colored glasses and realise that is not close to possible. WakeUp
Stop sending power to the USA
And their like no! We can't have you decentralize power & make your own home grid! Thats upsurd! We need you to be hooked on our broken system..
Don't worry,Greta's windmills will save the day..lol
But how are we gonna charge all our electric cars that were being forced to buy? 😂🤣
I live in a 29 story building. Why we don’t have have solar panels is beyond me. I’d like to see laundry rooms in buildings connected to roof tops so that we can dry our laundry.
All part of the WEF plan
And the political clowns promote more EV’s, when are you Canadian going to elect more capable politicians? Maybe politics only attract the dummkopfs and opportunists?
Meanwhile, Blackface Trudeau is banning gas cars because he's a Greta simp.
Funny how just out of nowhere everything is a shortage.
What the wind and solar isn’t working ?
Please explain why the push for Electric Cars
Then why do we export so much to the USA
Here we go!!!°
More doom and gloom bullshitt From Canadas top (shared with CBC) propaganda media machine..
Imagine this article coming out days after the liberals say their mandating electric vehicles.
Energy storage is still largely untested at scale so an all-of-the-above approach is needed.
And yet feds mandating EV sales.
in 2003 ON and much of Quebec spent 2.5 days in the dark while power was sent south to honor contracts .. im sure theyd do the same
Another Green Energy Scam to steal even more money from Ontario Rate Payers. Feed in Tariffs, Grid Priority . . . So many corrupt Liberal insiders with pockets needing even more $$$lining
Just stop it, CTV. Just stop it. We are world class energy fuel rich. Oil. Nat gas. Abundant. And you whine, groan, and bait the ignorant over electricity Shame on you. Go tell Trudeau to STOP punishing us…and YOU stop propping up his failed energy policy with this drivel.
But let's make all vehicles go to EVs lmao 🤣 👍🤦♂️
And they want us to all have electric vehicles😆😆😆
Climate change is a scam. Countless rich like Bill Gates warns of CC and raise in oceans and yet buy multi million dollar water front properties. EV are a scam to control and even take away your vehicle privileges. Many expensive upgrades needed for increased amperage alone
BS. Deliberate underinvestment in the grid and O&G to help bring down our economy. Planned for years. Next you are setting the stage for energy rationing and “climate” lockdowns. All based on the lie that humans are causing climate change. The evil one world techno-dictatorship.
Thanks wind and solar! Now get back to nuclear
I will accept any electric car as a gift...
But let's add 30000000 vehicles to the same supply line?
'Great Reset' alert 🚨 Get ready for carbon passports and climate lockdowns (don't worry, you'll get a 'stay home' alert on your phone). 🙄
And the road to carbon passports begins. This is getting too obvious.
maybe we should stop selling it to the US?