Ontario Power Generation
also known as OPG
Ontario Power Generation is one of the largest, most diverse, low-cost clean power generators in North America.
71 in this dataset
14 organisations in CA
What these terms mean
Every classification on this page, defined. These are controlled-vocabulary terms, so the same word means the same thing on every profile.
- Utility
- Generates or distributes electricity. Buys, operates or offtakes from plants rather than designing them.
- Operator
- Runs a facility, which may have been built by someone else.
- Fission
- Advanced and small modular fission reactor developers, plus established reactor vendors.
In Ontario Power Generation’s own words
Quoted from the organisation’s own site as we archived it. Their description of themselves, not ours, and not a claim this site has checked.
Central Ontario is home to 20 of our hydroelectric facilities, some of which, like our Sills Island Generating Station, have been part of their community for more than one hundred years.
Eastern Ontario is host to one gas-fired generating station and 15 of our hydroelectric generating stations on the St. Lawrence, Ottawa and Madawaska Rivers.
Northeastern Ontario contains 14 of our hydroelectric stations, including several we built or redeveloped through key partnerships with local Indigenous communities.
Northwestern Ontario hosts 11 of our hydroelectric stations as well as a former coal generating station that we converted to use biomass as fuel.
The golden horseshoe of Southern Ontario is home to key operations including our Darlington and Pickering nuclear stations in Clarington and Pickering.
Southwestern Ontario is host to our NSS - Western Waste Management Facility in Bruce County, our Eugenia hydroelectric station near Meaford, and our Nanticoke Solar Facility on the site of the former Nanticoke coal station.
At Ontario Power Generation (OPG), we are always improving, adding new voices, and finding newer, better ways of generating clean power that move us closer to realizing our vision for an electrified Ontario, and world.
From transportation to home heating to heavy industry, the next 20 years are going to be transformative for Ontario as the province switches to cleaner energy sources. As Ontario's largest generator of clean power, OPG is going to be centre-stage. And we are ready. We want to be the catalyst for economy-wide decarbonization by 2050. To do this, we have committed to making OPG a net-zero company by 2040.
We are already well on our way. OPG is reinvesting in hydropower, securing the future of nuclear energy by becoming a world leader on small modular reactors (SMRs), expanding our reach beyond Ontario to create value throughout the energy supply chain, and entering innovative partnerships to create real benefits for Indigenous communities and other partners.
Electrifying life in one generation won't be easy. But nothing worth doing ever is. At OPG, we never shy away from a challenge.
OPG generates clean power and positive change by championing equity, diversity, and inclusion and by lifting up the communities we serve.
Our hydro and nuclear projects are Superpowering Ontario's economy and creating jobs for generations.
Construction on our Darlington Refurbishment has been completed and the project is set to be delivered under budget, ahead of schedule!
Discover our innovative energy education program, created in collaboration with the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Tech University.
OPG will begin working with the Town of Port Hope and First Nations to explore new nuclear generation at our Wesleyville site.
As Ontario's largest low-carbon electricity generator, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) invests in local economies and employs thousands of people across Ontario. Together with our family of companies, we are leading the development of new clean technologies, advancing electrification initiatives, and refurbishing our existing assets – all to power the demands of a growing clean economy for decades to come.
Calling all innovators, changemakers, disruptors, and leaders. Be part of a once-in-a-century energy transition and help us electrify life.
OPG's road map for how we intend to work in partnership with Indigenous communities, businesses, and organizations to advance Reconciliation.
Where Ontario Power Generation sits
Composed from records in this dataset, not from outside research. Every figure below is counted from what the site holds, so it moves when the data does.
It is one of 14 we hold in CA.
Related organisations
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Sources
- Home – OPG operator
A source marked operator is the subject’s own publication. That is legitimate, and it is not independent confirmation. Methodology.