2024.MM19.9

Background

“The City of Toronto’s TransformTO Net Zero Strategy indicates that meeting our climate goals and reaping the benefits to health, equity, prosperity, and resilience, is heavily dependent on the availability of affordable, reliable, low-carbon electricity. The City identified that the need for all parties to work together to transition Ontario’s electricity system away from natural gas to a resilient system focused on low-carbon energy sources, distributed local renewable energy generation, storage, and energy efficiency.”

Source: City of Toronto

Item Description

This item requests that “the Independent Electricity System Operator to work with the City of Toronto and Toronto Hydro to align the Integrated Regional Resource Plan for Toronto’s electricity system, and broader energy system planning and procurement, with the City’s 2040 target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out gas-fired electricity at the Portlands Energy Centre by 2035,...rapidly increase local renewable energy generation and storage,..” and more.

Source: City of Toronto

Proposed by

Councillor Dianne Saxe, seconded by Councillor Paula Fletcher