The Ontario government’s rationale for cancelling a major renewables tender six weeks ago was based on faulty assumptions, the Canadian Wind Energy Association says, with some in the industry hopeful the market will recover much sooner than the government envisages.
Ontario shocked the Canadian renewables industry in September by scrapping the hotly anticipated second round of its Large Renewables Procurement process (LRP II), which was set to award contracts for nearly 1GW of new capacity – including 600MW of new wind and 250MW of solar.
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