Implications of sustainability assessment for electricity system design: The case of the Ontario Power Authority’s integrated power system plan

Winfield, Mark; Gibson, Robert B.; Markvart, Tanya; Gaudreau, Kyrke; Taylor, J. Eric T.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.03.038

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“…As some scholars state [1,2,24], the starting point for the changes to Ontario's legislature occurred in the mid1990s when the public energy issue was focused on making the electricity market more competitive. Ontario Hydro argued in Hydro 21 that the electricity system in Ontario should be restructured to follow a more market-oriented model due to the state's serious financial deficit [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Energy Competition and Electricity Acts of 1998 signaled a full-scale shift towards competitive retail and wholesale electricity markets, including the breakup of Ontario Hydro into a number of successor companies [2]. Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One were founded in 1998, and presently, there are approximately 80 distributors [1].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With smart planning to strategically increase investment in infrastructure and in clean, green energy projects, Smitherman found that the FIT could stimulate Ontario's economy, which had suffered since the global economic downturn in 2008. Smitherman emphasized three points in answering the question as to why the Ontario government required the FIT: (1) to close coal-fired power plants, (2) to enhance RE, and (3) to meet this challenge collectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An increasing number of studies analyze the program in detail, for example, Yatchew [1] and Winfield et al [2]. The main findings of these studies are that the GEA, unlike previous measures supporting RE, offered the potential to fundamentally change Ontario's energy policy and that this contributed to the improvement of local and weak actors' income through special support schemes for communities and aborigines willing to invest in RE.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Grassroots action for renewable energy: how did Ontario succeed in the implementation of a feed-in tariff system?

Nishimura

2012

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: This article examines the policymaking process of Ontario's Green Energy Act (GEA) which enabled the introduction of the first comprehensive feed-in tariff (FIT) in North America. The FIT, which is a payback system for renewable energy (RE) producers, was implemented in order to make Ontario a Green Leader in North America. This article analyzes this process through a consideration of the role played by grassroots action. Methods: The Green Energy Act Alliance (GEAA) succeeded in the implementation of the GEA. Using Lober's collaborative window, this article explores factors that led to the realization of the FIT. The conclusion will show that the GEAA succeeded in opening the collaborative window, even though the model's prerequisites were not completely fulfilled, namely there was a lack of public awareness.

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2012

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“…For the current research we began with the generic sustainability assessment framework described in Gibson et al [29], which is based on a broad synthesis of the sustainability literature and has been applied in various context-specified forms in several energy systems cases at both the strategic and project levels [33][34][35][36]. The starting point was the set of eight generic criteria categories shown in Table 1.…”

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Sustainability Assessment of the Agricultural and Energy Systems of Senegal

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Gibson

2015

Energies

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Abstract:To improve decision-making, sustainability-based approaches to assessment of options and undertakings demand that we move beyond narrowly defined considerations to address the full suite of requirements for progress towards sustainability. This paper reports on a sustainability assessment exercise that originally focused on burning agricultural residues, primarily peanut shells, for cooking applications in Senegal. The scope of assessment had to be expanded to address the agricultural and energy systems of Senegal, when closer examination revealed a complex set of energy and agricultural system interactions that could undermine the anticipated positive effects of initiatives centred primarily on peanut residue cookstoves. The case highlights the need to be open to expanding the scope of assessment to address underlying and/or unexpected issues that cannot be addressed appropriately at the project scale. In particular, the case illustrates how the assessment of an energy system may serve as an entry point into a deeper exploration of the context in which the energy system is embedded. The analysis also illustrates a situation in which different paths that may be followed, each with its own degree of uncertainty, path dependence, feasibility, fairness, cultural sensitivity, trade-off acceptability and possibilities for public judgement of overall desirability. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 3504

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DEA Application in Sustainability 1996–2019: The Origins, Development, and Future Directions

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International Series in Operations Research &Amp; Management Science

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Implications of sustainability assessment for electricity system design: The case of the Ontario Power Authority’s integrated power system plan

Cited by 40 publications

References 12 publications

Grassroots action for renewable energy: how did Ontario succeed in the implementation of a feed-in tariff system?

Grassroots action for renewable energy: how did Ontario succeed in the implementation of a feed-in tariff system?

Sustainability Assessment of the Agricultural and Energy Systems of Senegal

DEA Application in Sustainability 1996–2019: The Origins, Development, and Future Directions

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