Dive Summary:

• Ontario electricity customers are furious over paying for $585 million for two gas plants that never got off the ground. Consumers are also increasingly weary of green energy subsidies adding $6-$12 billion to household and industrial electricity bills.
• These failed gas plants and skyrocketing bills make up a troubled landscape also stained with shuttered coal plants and costly wind power, 80% of which gets sent to the U.S. power market. In turn, Ontario customers are incurring tremendous losses and bill costs.
• Another example of the problem is that, for every seven megawatts of wind energy developed, six megawatts of back-up gas power generation must be on deck, adding hundreds of millions in extra expenses.
• “The enormous cost of Ontario’s disastrous electricity policies brings into focus a broader and more fundamental governance issue applying to all provinces,”  Gwyn Morgan wrote in the Globe and Mail.

From the article:

"Ontario would have encountered vociferous opposition to the green energy act if the government had been required to include the gigantic cost of the power subsidies in its budget."