Electricity Retailing – Disclosure to Consumers, O. Reg. 416/99, requires retailers to disclose to consumers the Ontario system-wide electricity supply mix in the manner established by the Ontario Energy Board. The Board’s Directive for the Disclosure of Information to Consumers by Electricity Retailers under Ontario Regulation 416/99 prescribes the manner and timing requirements for this disclosure. The Directive applies to all retailers, including distributors that provide standard supply service.
Under O. Reg. 416/99 the Ministry of Energy is responsible for providing Ontario’s electricity supply mix data for electricity suppliers. The following label discloses the system-wide electricity supply mix data for 2022. This data must be used by electricity suppliers for the purposes of complying with the disclosure obligations of O. Reg. 416/99 and the Directive. This data should be considered current until further notice.
| Electricity Facts | |
| Electricity sources | Ontario’s Electricity Mix* |
| Nuclear | 51% |
| Hydro (Water) | 25.1% |
| Wind | 9.9% |
| Natural Gas | 10.2% |
| Solar | 2.5% |
| BioEnergy | 0.4% |
| Other | 0.9% |
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*Includes Lennox and dual fuel (natural gas/bioenergy) consistent with IESO. **IESO’s embedded generation data set combines biomass and gas. *** Non-Contracted represents a variety of fuel types that the IESO is unable to categorize due to a lack of information from Local Distribution Companies (LDCs). |
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