Zapped: The High Cost of Ontario’s Renewable Electricity Subsidies

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Page Title:Zapped: The High Cost of Ontario’s Renewable Electricity Subsidies – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:Zapped: The High Cost of Ontario’s Renewable Electricity Subsidies
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/zapped-high-cost-ontarios-renewable-electricity-subsidies/
Published Date:May 31, 2011
Accessed Date:February 12, 2025

Ontario’s subsidy program for renewable electricity suppliers will cost Ontario electricity users about $310 a year, per household, unless the program is reformed, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Zapped: The High Cost of Ontario’s Renewable Electricity Subsidies,” authors Benjamin Dachis and Jan Carr say subsidies paid to renewable energy producers under the province’s Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) program are a costly means of reducing domestic GHG emissions and creating jobs. Each new job that the Ontario government projects the program will create will cost Ontario residents about $179,000 in subsidies, say the authors, who conclude the program should not continue in its present form.

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