A major set of changes is underway affecting how renewable power supplies will be managed on the provincial grid. Much like other jurisdictions, Ontario has to devise ways of coping with increasing volumes of variable generation, recognizing the unique characteristics of each type of supply.

Bruce Power CEO Duncan Hawthorne delivered a major speech to the Toronto Board of Trade on March 7, sharing his sense of accomplishment in returning the Bruce station to full operational capability, and his view of nuclear energy’s role on the world stage.

Samsung Renewable Energy, Inc. and Pattern Energy Group LP announced March 12 that they had secured financing for the 270 megawatt South Kent Wind facility, allowing the project to move forward into the construction phase.

The number of jobs in the electricity sector will continue to outstrip the number of skilled people available to fill the positions. In fact the gap is expected to widen as the workforce retires and the next phase of infrastructure investment takes hold.

Los Alamos National Laboratory announced February 14 that a quantum cryptography (QC) team has successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.