{"id":1907,"date":"2010-04-23T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:49","slug":"torontos-renewable-energy-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/torontos-renewable-energy-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s renewable energy plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/skyline_riverdale_123.jpg\" width=\"123\" height=\"216\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: City of Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure>It is Canada&#8217;s largest city with a population of about 2.6 million people. Like several big cities in the world, it is looking for ways to hurl itself toward a more sustainable future. With that objective in mind, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the City of Toronto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Executive Committee approved a staff report seeking authority to implement a biogas utilization system that would convert biogas produced at the City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Green Lane Landfill into renewable energy, specifically electricity and heat\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, according to information published on the City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sustainability and the conservation of non-renewable resources should be the cornerstone of all our major initiatives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, said Mayor David Miller, Executive Committee Chair. Still according to the website, the energy would be used to heat a nearby greenhouse operation, one of the largest in Ontario. The project would involve Toronto partnering with Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc. (THESI) and Ontario Plants Propagation Limited (OPPL).<br \/>\n<!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>It is estimated the project will produce up to 138,000 megawatt-hours (MWeh) annually, enough to power 1,200 Toronto homes and displace approximately 15,000 tonnes CO2 emissions annually in grid electricity \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s roughly 4,545 cars removed from the road. <\/p>\n<p>THESI and OPPL intend to sell the electricity produced from the landfill biogas to Ontario Power Authority under its Feed-in Tariff (FIT) Program for renewables. <\/p>\n<p>Construction is projected to take place in 2011 and 2012. 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Like several big cities in the world, it is looking for ways to hurl itself toward a more sustainable future. With that objective in mind, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the City of Toronto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Executive Committee approved a staff report seeking authority to implement a biogas utilization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,330,45,60],"tags":[1743,317,88,114,117,331,1713,112],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-biogas","category-renewable-energy","category-urban-planning","tag-biogas","tag-canada","tag-energy","tag-feed-in-tariff","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-power-authority","tag-renewable-energy","tag-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9586,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/9586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}