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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

Calling all educators and at-home learners!

Join OPG and community partners weekly in March and April at 10 a.m. for the return of our virtual learning sessions. Programs are free, fun, educational, and suitable for children ages 6 to 12. Learn about biodiversity, STEM, Indigenous culture, arts, and climate change.

When:	Select Thursdays from March 24 to April 21
Where:	Online (virtual)
Time(s):	All sessions begin at 10 a.m. and run for approximately one hour.
Cost:	FREE
Pre-register:	Yes

Virtual learning schedule

All sessions begin at 10 a.m. and run for approximately one hour.

Thursday, March 24, 2022, 10 a.m.

Creative Characters!

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Thursday, March 31, 2022, 10 a.m.

Maple Time Fun

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Thursday, April 7, 2022, 10 a.m.

Animal Meet and Greet!

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Thursday, April 14, 2022, 10 a.m.

Sensational Science Adventures

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Thursday, April 21, 2022, 10 a.m.

Signs of Spring

Do you hear birds calling? Do you smell flowers blooming? It must be spring! Join Scientists in School on an outdoor nature adventure and use your senses to explore Signs of Spring!

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*Suitable for grades K-8

Can’t make the scheduled program time?

Not to worry, we will send all registered participants a link to a recording following the live event.

OPG’s New Nuclear Project

We have a goal to build a Small Modular Reactor at the Darlington site to help Ontario’s fight against climate change.

Learn more

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

Calling all educators and at-home learners!

Virtual learning schedule

Thursday, March 24, 2022, 10 a.m.

Creative Characters!

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 10 a.m.

Maple Time Fun

Thursday, April 7, 2022, 10 a.m.

Animal Meet and Greet!

Thursday, April 14, 2022, 10 a.m.

Sensational Science Adventures

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 10 a.m.

Signs of Spring

REGISTER

Can’t make the scheduled program time?

OPG’s New Nuclear Project