The objective of this project was to establish the Ontario Clean Energy Industry Alliance, consisting of industry stakeholders from high-emission sectors, to support new ways to build out a clean, reliable, and affordable provincial energy system. Throughout the project, CEC conducted a landscape scan of key developments in the Ontario energy landscape; interviewed key industrial stakeholders and other energy users; convened industry, energy experts and Indigenous representatives; and published a report (Reliable, Affordable, Predictable, Clean) with industry-backed recommendations emerging from the interviews and convenings.
By the project’s midpoint, CEC determined that the industry preferred an informal coalition to a formal Alliance as the former would require fewer internal approvals and move more flexibly. As such, CEC brought stakeholders to a general agreement on several recommendations that were included in their public report and advanced in meetings with relevant decision-makers in the Ontario government. Many elements of this report were reflected in the Ontario government’s October 2024 vision document: Ontario’s Affordable Energy Future: The Pressing Case for More Power, including the opportunity to expand the use of distributed energy resources (DERs); development of – and regular updates – to an integrated, long-term energy strategy; and greater and more timely access to information for businesses on the state of the system to support connection decisions.
The grant successfully brought together industry stakeholders around clean electricity in a way that had not been done to date in the province.