Coal-fired Power Shutdown Could Be Done Sooner

摘要

The head of a Toronto-based environmental group agrees with a prediction from the Ontario agency responsible for the province's electricity market that coal-fired power will be eliminated in the province by 2014 - but he says it could be done much more quickly if the right moves were made.rnJack Gibbons, executive director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA), toldNickle's Energy Group he agrees with a recent assessment by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that the province is "well positioned" to end the use of coal to generate electricity by 2014 because enough replacement generating capacity is already online or under development. However, he said if the province took other steps now it could close down the plants sooner.