Toronto's Second Green Blackout

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Toronto is the only major financial centre in the G7 with a transmission system design that fails to meet what is called the N-1 criteria, that is the ability of the transmission system to reliably serve consumers when its most important single element is out of service.
The Ontario Power Authority published this 2007 report warning about the deficiencies with the Richview
and Manby transformer stations, the threats they represent to reliability, and available solutions. The OPA’s preferred solution at the time was a combination of local gas-fired generation in the western GTA plus transmission upgrades. We haven’t done either. Instead, the OEB’s review of the OPA’s report was cancelled in late 2008 by the introduction of the Green Energy Act.
Two key gas-fired generators contracted for the western GTA, which were central to the OPA’s reliability plan, were also cancelled in the run-up to the 2011 election.
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Toronto’s July 2010 green blackout and its aftermath were nearly identical to the current crisis.

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