Conservation vs. Electricity Supply

Clean Air Alliance

This updated factsheet summarizes the Ontario Power Authority’s spending on new supply sources compared to its spending on efficiency and conservation methods. OPA has entered contracts for 18,137 megawatts (MW) of electricity supply yet its conservation and demand management programs are reducing demand in 2010 by approximately 1,105 MW. For every MW of demand reduction that it has reported, the OPA has contracted for 16 MW of electricity supply.

www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/fs26.pdf