The development of renewable electricity policy in the province of Ontario: the influence of ideas and timing.(Author abstract)

Review of Policy Research, The, May, 2007 by Rowlands, Ian H.

Introduction

In the development of policy on renewable electricity in Ontario, two different press conferences are particularly noteworthy. The first took place in downtown Toronto on the roof of the offices of the province's largest power producer, Ontario Power Generation, on July 3, 2003. In the middle of the city's second smog alert of the summer, remarks by the Commissioner of Alternative Energy, Steve Gilchrist, confirmed a fundamental change in the policy direction of the Progressive Conservative Government: sole dependence upon free markets to support renewable electricity was being displaced by a new commitment to a renewable portfolio standard. (For a definition of renewable portfolio standard, see Table 1.) The second was held in Cambridge, Ontario...

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