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.”
Perfect can I get 20 electric cars please
So we're heading into an energy crunch but we have this need to build more housing. In what realm does this even make sense. fordnation you better get it together or you're going to find yourself in darkness.
Cant wait for trudeau to push electric cars on this same system.
We should have more hydro than we know what to do with. Poor management.
...And they want to mandate electric vehicles. At least fix the problems that are on hand, e.g. as per this article. Then do future mandates! Or most likely this is another trick from the side who wants to keep going with ga$$$ cars!!
Distractions? Don't build on the green belt. First build infrastructure for all the new condos in Ontario! Don't build on the green belt!
.... and yet the big push for ev cars rolls on!! 🤦🏻♂️
But we are mandating electric vehicles
Is everyone in Gov clueless? The power grid cannot handle current demand rates during the peak summer season with central air and air conditioning units plus additional homes being built at the fastest rates in years and then they want to Mandate electric vehicles.
Keep pushing those electric vehicles though…. 🤦🏼♂️
Stop promoting EVs in this northern vast country until all supporting infrastructure is well underway. Simple.
We should have a surplus, we've been selling to the U.S. for years. This doesn't make sense, does our country simply mimic what happens in Europe? Wake up people !!
Ya know I can imagine a shortage in a country of 350 million people plus but it’s hard to imagine that same shortage in a country of only of only 37 million and in a province of 15 million people unless it’s self impose and or agenda driven?
energy can be free. stop lying
Hilarious to see people supporting more green energy in the comments 😂😂😂 we are doomed.
Ford has no energy plan it’s been five years of nothing. His answer was to extend the pickering plant. He is wasting our tax dollars and ignoring the fundamentals. Renewable energy hospitals and kids FordFailedOntario
Keep buying those EV cars everyone 👍
But buy an electric car🤔
And LPC want every vehicle to be an EV?
Storage energy to generate electricity will work until you try to build and utilize this new technology to generate electricity. Y'all better figure out how 'off the grid ' works. PC use be the practical ones, now they're booga-booga like the NDP. Don't give up on reality.
Don’t worry gas vehicles are being banned, I’m sure this will get better…
Don’t we have windmills?
It’s almost like we shouldn’t have cancelled a power plant in Oakville and dozens of green energy projects.
The problem is nothing has proven to be reliable as sources of energy other than what we have now. They are plunging into renewables at rapid speeds and have no real concrete plan. The price paid could be countless lives and huge financial hardships ahead
It's going to get worse if Trudeau's idealistic and unrealistic energy policies continue.
DougFordFail
BUT BUT BUT what happens we you can ONLY buy electric cars?! How many millions of charges plugging in...Trudeaus dream TrudeauBrokeCanada TrudeauForTreason TrudeauCorruption TrudeauMustGo
And our federal government wants to have electric vehicles only in a decade from now?
We need more EV's, that will help
Bring on the electric cars. That will help!🤔
We can’t possibly be in an electricity crunch…the Fiberals have taken steps to eliminate gasoline powered cars and natural gas furnaces…I’m sure they wouldn’t do that if there was a shortage of electricity!!! That would be just plain STUPID!!!
Thank DoFo..again.
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ONgov boost baseload capacity. More gas and nuclear turbines.
Nuclear is the way out of this crunch with the expansion in EV. Wind and solar aren’t the best options.
4.5 years ago fordnation said he will end the gravy trains in the end fordnation is the gravy train. 3.5 years is way too long for Ontario taxpayers to wait for provincial elections.
Another failure for fordnation OntarioPCCaucus OntarioPCParty
Storage is not a solution. We don’t have the technology yet.
And don't forget to line up for your electric car.....2035
Put out more electric cars maybe will help ask PM he knows the best he is drama teacher!
All going according to plan
Buy electric lol
the next logical step would be to mandate electric vehicles
Ok. We pay Michigan millions per month to take the extra power we can’t use up **after we dump as much as we can into Lake Ontario. That’s only with half of our reactors running. People need to start questioning this bull crap before we fall for anything else.
Wait a second, aren't we all supposed to be in electric cars by 2025 How the fuck is that gonna work based on this logic Lol
Let’s all get EV’s. That will end well 😂
We need more electric vehicles!!
It is total mess. Batteries will be disaster as charging will quickly drain system if EV's even at 15% of market. Keep your gas powered older vehicle long time if you are smart. Maintenance of about 1500 bucks a year for 24,000 km is cheap compared to financing of EV...
But... everyone should get electric cars? 🤡💩
and here we go.. dark winter as they said 2 years ago.
But go ahead and shutdown gas fired generation.
Buy make electric vehicles mandatory 😄
All thanks to green energy policies, sorry WEF policies!
How about just build more nuclear and save yourself the trouble?
Didn't QC offer ON an option on cheap power first, but fordnation's pride got in the way and he declined?
Is this the excuse not being used to skyrocket prices again and claim it'll go into increasing grids and such in order to sustain millions of EVs in 2035?
Better get people to stop buying EVs then.
Quebec pays the US to take their excess hydro. Incompetent government is the problem as usual. Instead of fixing infrastructure, they give money away to buy votes or get rich with fake crises.
bad governance
Tesla free energy
And yet our government wants to mandate 100% electric vehicle sales within the next few years. If you thought electricity prices were bad now, just wait until demand soars even higher. cdnpoli
And how is Turdeau's 2035 EV mandate gonna work out exactly? I wish liberals could use their brains.
More EV vehicles please.
YES!!! It could never have been avoided😂 who know shutting down energy plants that used coal and replacing it with wind and solar would lead to this?
You state tjat the growing amount of electric vehicles are part of the problem. So let's go full electric vehicles by 2035. Yay Hahahahahhqhqhahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahah
isn't it seems Ontario and Alberta are really a Broke State... thy always have problems... despite being Industrial and Energy rich states... thy r nothing different thn even the smallest Provinces of Canada....
Thx fordnation, you truly are destroying the province slowly.
Multi Million dollar Hydro corporation and there is a problem with grid?
Infrastructure would never support electric cars for all like Trudy wants
Ontario should not be too eager to jump into bed w Quebec Hydro. They will get screwed. Just ask the people of NL.
There's no reason for this the infrastructure was already in place, thanks for not voting again Ontario 😑
Yet we're all going to be driving electric cars.
Man… we should think about running a pipeline out that way, eh?
Didn't fordnation pay to take a bunch of renewables off the grid a few years back?
But they're mandating Evs lol
Keep buying more EVs. This world is so stupid...
Such planned bull s h I t ! And you know they will shut it down when it is the coldest. Guaranteed. Jan and Feb here we come. And what's next fines for burning wood? You know, cause of climate blah blah.
Lemme go buy a Tesla
Kiss your wallets and quality of life goodbye Ontario.
And yet Trudeau and the liberals insist on electric vehicles. TrudeauMustGo
Meanwhile PierrePoilievre is saying
Lots of speculation. It is becoming more and more apparent that as the Crime Minister is screwing Canadians today, no one really knows what to do or what it will cost or if it will even work.
Be ready to pay through the nose to charge that EV. It may be cheap now to entice new buyers but electricity sales do not include fuel tax, road tax. These taxes are used to pay for road infrastructure.
Seems to be a conservative political trend across North America.
Hi from Alberta…we’ve got lots…but you chose Trudeau over your fellow Canadians. Anyways happy new years…enjoy your frigid temps
We better listen to you when you tell us to get an EV then eh? You Nazi scum are such hypocrites
What happened to all the solar and wind turbines by Windsor? I though that was the 'green' drool dream!?
What’s going to happen when electric vehicles are implemented?
Did the liberals approve this message?
But yeah let's make everyone buy electric cars
The chickens are on their way home to roost.
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Let's all get electric cars 🙄
How is it possible to run out of electricity here We have wind, water and solar power. Can the govt not just build more panels or towers or whatever that can utilize these natural resources?
Should be building new Nukes
SMRs!!!!
You bring more EV’s, you will live in the EV’s!!!🤣🤣🤣
Manufacturerd crisis In the works
What a joke Canada is.
Bring on the ELECTRIC VEHICLES!!
Translation - you will pay more for no reason.
The corrupt and incompetent McGuinty/Wynne liberals caused this ….sadly Ontario kept them in power for 15 years Ontario Toronto Ottawa Oshawa Whitby Brampton Oakville Mississauga Vaughan Scarborough Aurora ThunderBay Kenora Markham Kitchener onpoli topoli
This is Doug Fords fault. fordnation
Energy is free. Has always been, but these men in suits and your government have collided to hide it from u. They are pushing to keep us enslaved, even those who believe in climate change. ClimateScam EndTheCarbonTax Extortion
Does CP stand for Communist Party
So shouldn’t we get this taken care of before we charge full steam ahead with electric cars?
Electric cars by 2035!
Tell the government to keep pushing electric cars when they can’t even supply us So if y’all had electric cars where we gonna get the power
Are those windmills turning and are the solar panels cleared of snow for the few hours a day they work? Those nat gas plants the liberals built and the tore down would have come in handy right now
Ya, mandating electric vehicles is going to be a smart move…
EV bahahaha
Yep, infrastructure can't keep uo now. Add to the problem, the Trudeau government is going to be forcing everyone into electrical cars, wait for how HUGE that problem will be. Power will be off more than on and the cost will be so high that only Trudeau and elites can afford it.
With the emergence of fusion power, there's no doubt electric energy is the future. The question is, how will fusion cells change or reshape the design of the current systems used today?
Why are we refusing to deal with Quebec for our electricity needs?
BS. We've never had an issue in the past except for now with the global Agenda happening. Electricity is a basic necessity and I assure you there will be an uprising and a major investigation by the citizens if they try this stunt here! Your move, play it wisely.
Great, something so the provincial government can jack up your prices. They see the profits energy companies are making in the UK. FordNation is a goof
those windmills aren't doing shit?
Yeah awesome. So buy buy buy those electric vehicles. Just don’t charge them
Those mandatory electric vehicles will work out quite nicely
The Liberal government is causing the problem and blaming you. Stop voting for them ffs.
Great time to buy a Tesla
Imagine when all the cars are home and plugged in… still can’t believe society is letting this Liberal Gov push ahead a gas lighted Climate scam when infasture is not ready no not will be in the future. Wake up People!!
Sounds like a great time for more EV’s🙄
Let's all buy those electric vehicles ...that can sit in the driveway unusable.
Khanji23 ayeshawaheedk
Thank god for electric vehicles. 🙄 this should go well
Sounds like a price increase incoming for electricity. Anyone buying gas knows this game.
Can we just start paying more taxes to help with this ?
And they expect our systems to handle 30 percent electric car sales. Smh
I call bullshit on this one, we are always selling off extra energy! What did it all vanish over night did the falls get shut off did the nuclear plant get taken of line, did Alberta close down its all man Man U fractured crap
Sure it is, too much, too little
And yet feds are mandating EV sales.
But but but we are all buying EVs soon?
And yell want electric cars hahahahahahahaha
all to avoid just using nuclear?
But hey, all passenger vehicles sold in Canada by 2035 will be electric. 🤡
Great reset alert 🚨 I hope you're all ready for carbon passports and climate lockdowns. The WEF, Agenda 2030 already spoke about this, and if you're smart you'll begin researching it. None of this is news to the OG's who actually paid attention to what they were telling us.
I can see EV owners going for that, bidirectional, if the replacement cost of the battery is covered with a profit $8,000-10,000/annum won't cover the replacement cost on a Tesla battery that could cost upwards of $25,000-30,000 to replace if it fails year one
Electrical systems are built based on load, and often are upgraded after the fact. The only issues with this process is that there is no magic pill to deploy double the electricity. It can take up to 20 yrs to upgrade to a level, there will be lack and sacrifice. History teaches
We need another nuclear power plant. Or maybe even two.
Seems like an excellent time then to make everyone switch to EVs and also add 500,000 new immigrants per year, all needing electricity.
Climate change lockdown attempt since the Covid scare isn’t working. Follow the money
They are normalizing 'supply' issues here to normalize shortages and justify future blackouts.
Hey, let's mandate EV sales, that should help the grid. /s
Anyone with an electric vehicle don’t charge it. Don’t leave your house. This is what is coming when they force their electric car mandates on us when the grid can’t handle it
Make every building a solar and wind power plant. This is 'Distributive Capitalism:' Canadians can collect, produce and store power for themselves or share it along peer-to-peer grids.
No mention of the small modular reactors in this article?
Just in time for EV mandates
Here we go. Just an excuse to jack rates again.
Stop giving it away to Quebec and the States
Whoa that's crazy bro sure is a good thing our government is making EV's mandatory in a few years. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Solar panels on Ford's huge stomach should do half the province and wind turbines in front of Leece's big mouth should cover the other half. easy peasy
And yet we are all supposed own EVs in 10 years…. Ya ok 👌🏻
Let's Stop selling to the US.
Going 'Green' is working out fantastic Meanwhile the PM took off to Jamaica for a week long vacation at Tax Payers expense......
Ford preferred to say no to HQ during his elections. It was politically advantageous regardless of the strategic and financial advantage... 1500 MW, to the Americans!
Bring on EVs baby!! 🤓
Just open more nuclear plants ffs.
…but, mandate Electric Vehicles ASAP! 🤷♂️🤡🇨🇦
With the infrastructure struggling and overburdened meeting basic demands, is this the time to be mandating Electric Vehicles?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Go woke go broke
But let’s all get a electric cars,that’s gonna save us all when the grid won’t handle our lives now😂
Think I’ll buy an EV……Lolololololol
Oh yah. And we have the infrastructure to charge thousands of EVs but can't supply power to households. Another engineering success!! Lmfao
That without the electric cars...
Produces enough power to sell off to the good ole U S of A, but we're experiencing a shortage? Cool Story
Cons: how grid work with all them EVs? Also Cons: We must build millions of low density single family R1 houses that consume far far far more electricity than an EV.
Nothing a couple million EV's can't fix, right 🙄🙄🙄
So long as refugees are warm in their four star accommodations all is good. Don’t forget about the illegals. They count too.
This sounds like a massive lie
Let's Check In On Clown Boy 🤡🎈🌴🧦🇨🇳
And the environmentalists want us to shutter our nuclear plants.
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