BILL 150: THE GREEN ENERGY AND GREEN ECONOMY ACT
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BUILDING THE GREEN ECONOMY
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About Green Energy
Benefits of Green Energy

The following summary of the benefits of renewable energy generation is drawn from the OPA’s Information for Local Distribution Companies website and OSEA’s Powering Ontario Communities report.

  • Fighting Climate Change through reducing GHG emissions. Generation from community-scale renewable energy replaces fossil fuel sources and contributes to the province’s ability to close coal-fired plants.
  • Reducing environmental impacts (cleaner air, water and soil) benefits our health and our environment.
  • A diversified fuel supply strengthens our energy system. Diversity in technologies as well as geographies reduces our vulnerability to centralized failures.
  • Low or no cost energy sources (water, wind, sun, waste) reduce the cost uncertainty of relying on fossil fuels and nuclear material.
  • Distributed generation can promote transmission and distribution system reliability. Smaller community-based generation is located closer to where it is consumed. This reduces transmission line losses and lowers the system’s maintenance costs.
  • New project investment aids local economic development. Farmers, other rural landowners, community groups, co-operatives, First Nations, and rural businesses and industry are potential investors and owners in projects that directly benefit their local communities.
  • High-skill job creation - Unions, skilled and unskilled labour, and recent university graduates benefit from the introduction of an expanding renewable energy industrial sector.
  • Diversified tax base - Increased economic activity in rural areas would generate incremental tax revenues.
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Adobe Acrobat OSEA: Powering Ontario Communities
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Study Outlining Policy Options to Encourage Small or Community-Owned Renewable Energy Generation in Ontario
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