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The former Nanticoke Generating Station site, located on the northern shore of Lake Erie, has been transformed into a 44-megawatt clean energy facility that hosts 192,431 solar panels across 260 acres.
The project has just been completed by PCL Construction, a company that was commissioned to design, engineer and build it, as well as supply the photovoltaic solar panels and racking system. Behind the idea and funding are Ontario Power Generation, the Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
Former Nanticoke Generating Station. Photo by Ontario Power Generation.
The opening of the solar facility coincides with the one-year anniversary of the demolition of the Nanticoke 650-feet smokestacks. It has also been almost five years since the station burned its last piece of coal.
In its heyday, the Nanticoke Generating Station was the largest coal-fired plant in North America, providing 15% of Ontario’s electricity. After serving the province for more than 40 years, it stopped using coal as fuel in 2013. Two years later, the site was safely closed while the switchyards, operated by Hydro One Networks, remain in operation as a significant hub for the electricity grid in the southwestern part of the region.
Official information indicates that some parts of the former facility, such as the powerhouse, still need to be torn down. Following the last demolition scheduled for September 2019, the site will undergo a restoration process in 2020.
Since 2014, Ontario Power Generation stopped using coal to generate electricity in Canada’s most populous province, a move that resulted in the equivalent of taking 7 million cars off the road.
12 Comments
Travis Burdess
🙂
Robert Carey
Thanks to Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne, this is a great accomplishment! Despite all the naysayers at the time, including the OPG Society of Energy Professionals, Ontario is a cleaner and safer place to live and the equivalent reduction of the emissions of 7 million fossil fuel cars is certainly a step in the right direction!
This Is Me
Fantastic.
Now just add a Tesla Battery bank / Gigafactory, and we can finally say, that we are headed in the right direction.
Allan Beamont Harmsworth
Sadoway battery.
MUBIN KOTWAL
It is best suited to replace the Coal fired Steam turbines for the Pollution & price of Coal as well as to replace the HSD / HFO combination of Fuel which is used in the Diesel Generators. Though it has its own challenges for Sunny hours & cleaning the surface, but we it is still the best option.
bjoe244
Solar in Ontario? In June 2018 voters decided that the then governing Liberal Party would fell from 55 seats to only 7. The price for absurd politicians, who think they can replace energy rich fuels with intermittent wind and solar.
bjoe244
Mining.com did not like my 1st comment, so I will rephrase it: Perhaps Mining.com can explain better why the Progressive Conservative from 28 in 2014 won 76 seats in June 2018 elections, when the ruling Liberal from 58 in 2014 won only 7 seats in 2018.
PS. Electricity cost skyrocketed during the Liberal governance.
bjoe244
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ontario_general_election
The result is directly associated to electricity generation choices made by the Ontario government.
bjoe244
It is highly undemocratic to erase comments just because you did not like the Ontario voters opinion in June 2018!
Andy Whitten
How many megawatts was the coal fired facility? Or alternatively, what percentage of Ontario’s electricity does the new facility provide? And what is the comparative cost per magawatt hour?
Waya Aeon
Not sure on the original capacity, but the comparative cost is less and less every year 😉
BruceBatchelor
Great news! My only questions are editorial, around the use of “the equivalent of taking 7 million cars off the road” and the off-cited “powering XXXXX number of households”. With people switching to EVs and homes becoming better insulated and using heat pumps — what do those comparisons mean any more?
And might people get the impression that they needn’t take personal responsibility to ditch their fossil-fuel powered vehicle because green projects are offsetting their vehicle’s emissions?
Just wondering if there are better comparisons to use… surely clever minds will come up with ideas. Thanks.