Following the massively oversubscribed first round of Ontario's Large Renewables Procurement process (LRP I) – which saw EDP Renewables, EDF-RE, and other developers winning contracts for 455MW of new capacity earlier this year – Ontario had been in the process of readying an even-larger LRP II round.

The LRP process replaced Ontario's feed-in tariff system, which helped the province emerge as a major market for renewables and attract a number of manufacturers.

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