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 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

An aerial view of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station.

Darlington refurbishment project

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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

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.

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.

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.

Hydroelectric Water Portal (water.opg.com)

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

News & resources

Watt’s New
In our revamped e-newsletter, find out how we're helping electrify Ontario while strengthening its economy, communities, and the environment.
Newsroom
WattNext.ca
Ontario Science Centre, Ontario Tech University and OPG's energy education program aims to educate, inform, and connect Ontarians with energy careers.
Educational resources
Hydroelectric Water Portal (water.opg.com)

Careers
Investors
Reports
OPG Websites
- Initiatives
- Subsidiaries

Hydroelectric power

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Timeless, renewable, powerful

Hydroelectric power, or water power, is a timeless, renewable resource that has fuelled Ontario's economic growth since the beginning of the 20^th century. Today, it accounts for more than one-third of Ontario Power Generation's (OPG's) electricity production.

See why clean hydroelectric power is an important part of OPG’s energy mix for Ontario.

Hydroelectric fleet in Ontario

7,623

MW in-service generating capacity
(Mar. 31, 2026)

66

stations

239

dams on 24 river systems

34.1

terawatt hours of power produced in 2025

Diving into hydroelectricity

Hydroelectric power is such a popular renewable energy source because it is a clean, reliable, and low-cost way to produce the energy Ontario needs.

Hydro generation relies on water, a renewable resource that OPG shares with Indigenous communities as well as local governments, industry and environmental groups, and recreational users.

Hydroelectric power is the lowest-cost energy source. OPG continues to look for development opportunities like the Peter Sutherland Sr. Generating Station built with partners Taykwa Tagamou Nation or to upgrade or expand existing stations like the Calabogie project.

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

Hydroelectric Water Portal

Get up-to-the-hour water level info on the 66 hydroelectric stations and 239 dams OPG operates on 24 river systems.

Exploring Ontario's hydro opportunities

A new report identifies areas of high generation potential, and provides initial estimates on developing this potential.

How does hydro power work?

OPG's WattNext

OPG’s WattNext, produced in partnership with the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Tech University, provides answers to energy questions big and small.

Learn Watt's Next for hydroelectric power at:

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Territorial Acknowledgement

Central Ontario

Eastern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario

Northwestern Ontario

Southern Ontario - Durham Region

Southern Ontario - Niagara Region

Southwestern Ontario

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