Developing Ontario's Community Power Potential with ARTs

What's Needed

• Separate mechanism for community-owned power projects
• Advanced Renewable Tariffs (for financing)
• Streamlined Interconnection (for eliminating obstacles)
• By-Right Permits in Rural/Agricultural Zones (to expedite installation)

Advanced Renewable Tariffs for Community Wind Projects

• 20 year fixed-price contract
• 10 MW size limit
• Year 1 to 10, 10 cent/kWh
• Year 10-20, two tiers
  High production, 8 cent/kWh
  Low production 10 cent/kWh
• Different price for different technologies (PV, biomass, small hydro)

Streamlined Small Renewable Interconnection

• Contracts for all projects less than 10 MW
• Contracts open to all players
• No allocation of contracts (to avoid hoarding)
• Project size determined by point of interconnection (to deter aggregators)
• Approval or rejection of interconnection request within 90 days

By-Right Permits in Rural/Agricultural Zones

• For single turbines of any size
• For clusters less than 10 MW

Why

• Long term contracts eliminate price volatility for rate payers
• Community wind helps assure acceptance & empowers communities
• Advanced tariffs assure geographic diversity
• Local or distributed generation saves 9% in line losses
• Generation strongly correlated to demand (ECSTF)
• Simplified procurement eliminates need for staff, time, and expense
• Community generation provides new source of rural revenue
• 10 MW size is self limiting, no need for quotas