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Northland Power 2013 [7] Belmont Ontario: 20 Alterra, GE Energy: 2013 [8] [9] Burk's Falls East Solar Project Ontario: Armour 10 Northland Power 2013 [10] Burk's Falls West Solar Project Ontario: Ryerson 10 Northland Power 2014 [11] Crosby Solar Project Ontario
Ontario has several other large PV power plants, other than the Sarnia plant. The 23.4 MW Arnprior Solar Generating Station was built in 2009, and is expected to expand to 80 MW. [ 8 ] Additionally, a 68 megawatt solar farm can be found in Sault Ste. Marie , and a new 100 megawatt solar farm was built in Kingston, Ontario in 2015.
This article lists the largest electrical generating stations in Canada in terms of current installed electrical capacity. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal , fuel oils , nuclear , natural gas , oil shale and peat , while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass , geothermal heat , hydro , solar energy ...
The following pages lists the power stations in Canada by type: List of largest power stations in Canada; Non-renewable energy. Coal in Canada § List of coal-fired power stations; List of natural gas-fired power stations in Canada; Nuclear power in Canada § Power reactors; Renewable energy. Geothermal power in Canada § Recent developments
Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant near Sarnia, Ontario, is Canada's largest photovoltaic plant with an installed capacity of 97 MW P (80 MW AC). [2] [3] [4] [5]In 2009, Ontario introduced a feed-in tariff renewable energy payments program paying up to CDN 44.3 cents per kW·h for large ground arrays such as the Sarnia plant. [6]
Ontario has a program of moving away from coal and promoting renewable resources which has led to many industrial-scale photo-voltaic plants being built. Located in Sarnia, Ontario, the 97 megawatt [26] Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant can power more than 12,000 homes, and in October 2010 was the largest solar farm in the world. [27]
The Sault Ste. Marie Solar Park near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, in 2011 became Canada's second largest photovoltaic plant with an installed capacity of 68 MW p. [1]In 2009, Ontario introduced a feed-in tariff for renewable energy payments program paying up to CDN 44.3 cents per kilowatt-hour (kW·h) for large ground arrays such as Sault Ste. Marie. [2]
In 2001, OPG leased Canada's largest power plant, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station to Bruce Power, a private consortium originally led by British Energy, reducing its share of the provincial generation market to 70%. The government opened the competitive market on May 1, 2002, but heat waves and droughts in the summer of 2002 caused ...