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Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Department of Civil Engineering

CVL300: Environmental Science and Impact Assessment

Tutorial #12 Integrated Power System Plan (IPSP): Purpose and Rationale TOR of Hw

Readings: IPSP Planning and Consultation Overview

The Long-Term Energy Plan listed reasons why Ontario needs to plan now to improve supply capacity
to meet the provinceʹs electricity needs beyond 2015:
• Insufficient investment prior to 2003 left an aging supply network and little new generation
• Additional clean generation will be needed to ensure a coal‐free supply mix after 2014
• Nuclear generators will need to go offline while they are being modernized
• Population is projected to grow

One of Ontario’s strengths is a diversified supply mix. Each type of generation has a role in meeting
overall system needs and Ontario requires the right combination of assets to ensure a balanced supply
mix that is reliable, modern, clean and cost effective.

The IPSP an “integrated” Plan because it will address both conservation and new supply and will
ensure that conservation, generation and transmission investments are looked at together, balancing
risks, costs and environmental impacts.

This IPSP Planning and Consultation Overview document is organized according to the core areas of
the sector - demand (or load), conservation, supply, transmission and the development of a smart grid.

IPSP Supply Mix Directive 2011 is used to define the alternative space:
1. Maximize feasible cost effective contribution from energy efficiency, demand
management, fuel switching, and customer based generation (“Conservation”);
2. Maximize feasible cost effective contribution from renewable sources;
3. Make up baseload requirements remaining after Steps 1 and 2 above with nuclear
power;
4. Replace coal-fired generation with power from committed and planned resources.
Specifically, in order to ensure that existing coal-fired facilities are replaced by 2014,
gas-fired generation (“GFG”) facilities are planned to be installed in the areas of
Northern York Region, Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Guelph and the Greater
Toronto Area (“GTA”) by 2014; and
5. Restrict contribution of GFG to specific projects as required when additional
Conservation and renewable resources are not feasible or cost effective.

Load reduction measures include geothermal heating and cooling, solar heating and fuel switching,
and customer-based generation.

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Main supply mixes are conservation, nuclear, natural gas, renewable hydroelectric, renewable wind-
solar-bioenergy.

Long-term planning for transmission planning should allow for the expansion of the system to include
renewables.

If you are going to develop IPSP alternatives, what are those alternatives? State your assumptions.

Solution:

Based on the directive, the following alternatives may be considered:

1. Do-nothing (i.e. using the existing supply mixes and transmission network)

Various combinations of the main supply mixes can be considered as alternatives such as
2. Conservation, natural gas, renewable hydroelectric and expansion of transmission to
include renewable hydroelectric.
3. Conservation, natural gas, renewable hydroelectric and expansion of transmission to
include renewable hydroelectric, and renewable wind-solar-bioenergy and new
transmission to facilitate diffuse power generation.
4. Conservation, nuclear, natural gas and expansion of transmission to natural gas.
5. Conservation, nuclear, natural gas, renewable hydroelectric, renewable wind-solar-
bioenergy, and expansion of transmission to include renewable hydroelectric and
renewable wind-solar-bioenergy.