Estimates of Ontario’s Electricity Reserves ‘Miscalculated’: Sources

Canada.com – Ontario will have much less electricity available this summer than previously thought and will have to continue using its smog-contributing coal plants longer than expected because the province’s power system monitor “miscalculated” its forecasts, sources said Thursday.

The errors by the Independent Electricity System Operator will likely force the government to keep at least some of its four coal-fired plants open longer than anticipated because the province hadn’t planned for the “supply crunch” to be as bad as it is, government sources told The Canadian Press.

“It will put new pressure on them to extend the lives of the coal plants,” a source said. “The numbers that everybody’s been playing with are wrong.”
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