Pickering's tall tower
OPG's Pickering Nuclear site is home to the Pickering Wind Generating Station, one of North America's largest wind turbines. This 1.8 megawatt, 117-metre high wind machine started making electricity in 2001. It is designed to produce enough green power for 600 households a year.
Green hydroelectric
Hydropower, or electricity made with falling water, is by far the largest renewable energy source in Canada. It uses falling water to turn turbines and create electricity. Environmentally friendly hydro sites are typically smaller sites and don't hold back a lot of water in a reservoir. The backbone of OPG's current Green Power collection is our 29 small hydroelectric units. These Ontario sites are capable of producing about 125 MW of low-impact electricity.
Electricity from garbage
Biomass generation produces electricity by burning organic material either in the form of solid fuel - like woodwastes from timber operations - or biogas. It's a renewable resource because plants and other organic matter regenerate relatively quickly. OPG purchases the electricity generated from two Toronto-area biogas plants that use the methane gas produced from solid waste decomposition. One facility taps into landfill gas, the other employs anaerobic digestion; in both cases, the methane gas is used to run electrical generators.
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