Our mission, vision & values

As Ontario’s largest clean electricity generator, see how our focus is on generating safe, efficient, and reliable energy.

About

Our partnerships & subsidiaries
Our subsidiaries & partnerships are helping us improve electricity generation, storage, and distribution technology to electrify life in one generation.
Who we are
Powering Ontario
Ontario’s need for power never takes a rest and neither does OPG — we’re on the job 24 hours a day, seven days a week, powering Ontario.
What we do
Public safety
We maintain a long-term commitment to the health, safety and energy needs of Ontarians, and it shows in everything we do.
Our commitments in action
Code of Business Conduct
We operate according to a Code of Business Conduct that ensures safety, integrity and efficiency for Ontario.
Governance & regulation

Workers in hard hats look out from the top of an open stairway before a huge Canadian flag in a nuclear plant.

Our role in the system

Our role is to help build a stronger Ontario by investing in clean, affordable power and energy solutions that help grow Ontario's economy.

Power generation

Nuclear power
Nuclear power plays an important role in Ontario and OPG’s energy mix, and its critical to helping us achieving our net-zero goals.
Our power
Educational resources
We support students and educators by providing learning resources developed specifically for teachers, young people and schools.
Our role in the system
Nuclear safety and emergency preparedness
We build safety into every step of our energy production and about our comprehensive emergency preparedness plans for Ontarians.
Our commitment to safety
- Nuclear safety and emergency preparedness
- Water safety

The pristine turbine hall at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station.

Darlington refurbishment project

Once complete, this project will enable production of clean, safe, low-cost, and emission-free electricity from Darlington for 30 more years.

Projects & services

Darlington SMR
The Darlington site is the only location in Canada licenced for new nuclear with a completed and accepted Environmental Assessment.
Our projects
Clean energy credits
With an extensive portfolio of clean energy generation across North America, OPG can offer environmental credits in both Canada and the US.
Our services
- Electrification services
- Clean energy credits

Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Territorial acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that our facilities are located within the traditional and treaty territory of Indigenous Nations and communities.

Community investment

The Power for Change Project was designed to give back to Ontario and to the communities where we operate, to help build a cleaner, more sustainable future for generations to come.

Communities

Territorial Acknowledgement
- Territorial Acknowledgement
  OPG respectfully acknowledges that the lands on which its generating stations and other assets are located are within the traditional and treaty territory of many Indigenous communities. Click to read more.
Central Ontario
- Central Ontario
  Central Ontario is home to 20 of our hydroelectric facilities, some of which, like our Sills Island Generating Station, have been part of their community for more than one hundred years.
Eastern Ontario
- Eastern Ontario
  Eastern Ontario is host to one gas-fired generating station and 15 of our hydroelectric generating stations on the St. Lawrence, Ottawa and Madawaska Rivers.
Northeastern Ontario
- Northeastern Ontario
  Northeastern Ontario contains 14 of our hydroelectric stations, including several we built or redeveloped through key partnerships with local Indigenous communities.
Northwestern Ontario
- Northwestern Ontario
  Northwestern Ontario hosts 11 of our hydroelectric stations as well as a former coal generating station that we converted to use biomass as fuel.
Southern Ontario - Durham Region
- Southern Ontario - Durham Region
  The golden horseshoe of Southern Ontario is home to key operations including our Darlington and Pickering nuclear stations in Clarington and Pickering.
Southern Ontario - Niagara Region
- Southern Ontario - Niagara Region
  The golden horseshoe of Southern Ontario is home to key operations including our iconic Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric stations in Niagara Falls.
Southwestern Ontario
- Southwestern Ontario
  Southwestern Ontario is host to our NSS - Western Waste Management Facility in Bruce County, our Eugenia hydroelectric station near Meaford, and our Nanticoke Solar Facility on the site of the former Nanticoke coal station.

Rough waters in the tailrace from Barrett Chute hydroelectric station.

Water system data portal

Find water level and flow information from gauges on rivers where OPG operates hydroelectric stations in Ontario.

News & resources

Net-Zero News
A quarterly round-up of stories, news and profiles that highlight our best. See how we’re electrifying life in one generation.
Newsroom
Visitor centres
At our visitor centres, the public is welcomed to see how their power is made and learn about Ontario's low-carbon electricity system.
Educational resources
Water safety
Our commitment to public safety includes making sure people know about the dangers around our hydro stations and dams.
Water system data portal

Careers
Investors
Reports
OPG Websites

Shareholder directives

As Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG's) sole Shareholder, the Government of Ontario can direct us to undertake special initiatives.

These are shared as written declarations such as the Unanimous Shareholder Agreement or Declaration in accordance with Section 108 of the Ontario Business Corporations Act.

Our directives

Learn more about Directives OPG has received from its Shareholder below.

Sale of Certain Lands at 2655 Lakeshore Road in Port Hope

March 25, 2022

Regarding the Proposed Sale of Certain Lands at 2655 Lakeshore Road in Port Hope (PDF)

Sale of Lakeview Site

June 9, 2016

Sale of Lakeview Site (PDF)

Sale of 700 University Ave. & 40 Murray St.

Dec. 18, 2015

Sale of 700 University Ave. & 40 Murray St. (PDF)

Bruce Lease Agreement — Heavy Water

Nov. 30, 2015

Bruce Lease Agreement - Heavy Water (PDF)

Bruce Lease Agreement - Used Fuel

Nov. 30, 2015

Bruce Lease Agreement - Used Fuel (PDF)

Thunder Bay Generating Station Conversion — Declaration and Resolution

May 1, 2014

Thunder Bay Generating Station Conversion - Declaration and Resolution (PDF)

Thunder Bay Generating Station Conversion

Dec. 16, 2013

Thunder Bay Generating Station Conversion (PDF)

Early Closure of OPG’s Lambton and Nanticoke Coal-fired Generation Stations

Mar. 7, 2013

Early Closure of Ontario Power Generation Inc.’s Lambton and Nanticoke Coal-Fired Generation Stations (PDF)

First Nation Directive

Apr. 1, 2011

Note: OPG was directed by its Shareholder to pay part of the Shareholder’s portion of the settlement liability on its behalf. Due to the confidentiality and commercial sensitivity of the settlement agreement, the document is not provided here.

Atikokan Generating Station Conversion

Mar. 8, 2011

Atikokan Generating Station Conversion (PDF)

Addressing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Use of Coal at Coal-fired Generating Stations

May 20, 2010

Addressing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Use of Coal at Coal-Fired Generating Stations (PDF)

Request for Indicative Prices for the Supply of Wood Pellet Fuel Declaration (Atikokan)

Mar. 18, 2010

Request for Indicative Prices for the Supply of Wood Pellet Fuel Declaration (Atikokan) (PDF)

Request for Expressions of Interest for Supply and Transportation of Solid Biomass Fuel Declaration

Jan. 13, 2009

Request for Expressions of Interest for Supply and Transportation of Solid Biomass Fuel Declaration (PDF)

Addressing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Use of Coal at Coal-Fired Generating Stations

May 15, 2008

Addressing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Use of Coal at Coal-Fired Generating Stations (PDF)

Contingency Support Agreement for Lambton Generating Station and Nanticoke Generating Station from 2009 to 2014

Jan. 1, 2009

Contingency Support Agreement for Lambton Generating Station and Nanticoke Generating Station from 2009 to 2014 (PDF)

Territorial Acknowledgement

Central Ontario

Eastern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario

Northwestern Ontario

Southern Ontario - Durham Region

Southern Ontario - Niagara Region

Southwestern Ontario

Territorial Acknowledgement

Central Ontario

Eastern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario

Northwestern Ontario

Southern Ontario - Durham Region

Southern Ontario - Niagara Region

Southwestern Ontario

Shareholder directives

Our directives

Sale of Certain Lands at 2655 Lakeshore Road in Port Hope

March 25, 2022

Sale of Lakeview Site

June 9, 2016

Sale of 700 University Ave. & 40 Murray St.

Dec. 18, 2015

Bruce Lease Agreement — Heavy Water

Nov. 30, 2015

Bruce Lease Agreement - Used Fuel

Nov. 30, 2015

Thunder Bay Generating Station Conversion — Declaration and Resolution

May 1, 2014

Thunder Bay Generating Station Conversion​

Dec. 16, 2013

Early Closure of OPG’s Lambton and Nanticoke Coal-fired Generation Stations

Mar. 7, 2013

First Nation Directive

Apr. 1, 2011

Atikokan Generating Station Conversion

Mar. 8, 2011

Addressing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Use of Coal at Coal-fired Generating Stations

May 20, 2010

Request for Indicative Prices for the Supply of Wood Pellet Fuel Declaration (Atikokan)

Mar. 18, 2010

Request for Expressions of Interest for Supply and Transportation of Solid Biomass Fuel Declaration

Jan. 13, 2009

Addressing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Use of Coal at Coal-Fired Generating Stations

May 15, 2008

Contingency Support Agreement for Lambton Generating Station and Nanticoke Generating Station from 2009 to 2014

Jan. 1, 2009

Thunder Bay Gas Conversion Cancellation

July 12, 2006

Nuclear Directive

June 16, 2006

Lower Mattagami River Agreement

May 23, 2006

Bruce Power Lease Agreement

Oct. 14, 2005

Thunder Bay Gas Conversion Declaration

Oct. 6, 2005

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