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.

Low water conditions at the tailrace of Lower Sturgeon hydroelectric generating station.

Hydroelectric Data Portal (water.opg.com)

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
Hydroelectric Water Portal (water.opg.com)

Careers
Investors
Reports
OPG Websites

2023 Integrated ESG and Annual Report
Generation for generations

See how the refurbishment of OPG’s Pickering Nuclear Generating Station will provide carbon-free power for generations to come.
Electrifying life in one generation

See how we're helping power a cleaner, more sustainable future for Ontario and the world.
Ontario is leading North America's clean energy future

Learn about OPG's plan to deploy a fleet of Small Modular Reactors at our Darlington site.

ESG and Annual Report
Generation for generations
Electrifying life in one generation
Leading North America's clean energy future

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Our subsidiaries & partnerships

Powering the electric future

As one of North America’s largest, most diverse electricity generators, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) invests in local economies and employs thousands of people across Ontario and the United States. Together with our family of companies, we are leading the development of new clean technologies, advancing electrification initiatives, and refurbishing our existing assets – all to power the demands of a growing clean economy for decades to come.

We delivered one of the world's single-largest climate change actions by closing our coal stations, but that does not make us complacent. It makes OPG hungry to do even more to power Ontario’s homes and businesses – and build on our province’s reputation as a clean-energy powerhouse.

Ken Hartwick

President and CEO, OPG

Electrify your career

Calling all innovators, changemakers, disruptors, and leaders. Be part of a once-in-a-century energy transition and help us electrify life.

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Key projects and initiatives

A conceptual rendering of the BWRX-300 SMR plant by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.

The future of nuclear

OPG is building North America's first small modular reactor (SMR) at our Darlington site. A total fleet of four SMRs will provide 1,200 new megawatts of clean, reliable, safe nuclear power. That's enough to power about 1.2 million homes for decades.

OPG will be the first power generator in North America to build a small modular reactor (SMR).

A crane moves a large battery into place at Hagersville.

Innovative energy storage

From pumped hydro to batteries to hydrogen, we're on the leading edge of new energy storage technologies that are critical to electrifying life with clean, reliable power.

From pumped hydro to batteries to hydrogen, OPG is on the leading edge of new energy storage technologies.

Hydrogen renewable energy production pipeline - hydrogen gas for clean electricity solar and windturbine facility.

A hydrogen powerhouse

With our abundant supply of clean electricity, OPG’s subsidiary, Atura Power, is pioneering the production of green hydrogen to help power the energy transition while building an entirely new, made-in-Ontario cleantech industry.

OPG’s subsidiary, Atura Power, is pioneering the production of green hydrogen to help power the energy transition.

Plugging in an electric car at an Ivy Charging Network charging station.

Powering the electric revolution

To enable net-zero by 2050, OPG and our subsidiaries are investing in electric vehicle charging networks, electrifying transit systems, and working with businesses to electrify fleets.

By 2050, Ontario will need to be fully electrified and that means investing in EV charging networks, electrifying transit systems, and working with businesses to electrify fleets.