the answer is that we need to use more electricity. the policy assumed we'd be driving electric cars and running high speed rails up and down the detroit-quebec city corridor, by now.

our electricity is clean. you're not helping the environment by using less of it. rather, you'd be helping the environment by using more of it - and less fossil fuels.

i would support a renationalizing of the grid, and a system run at cost.

but it's backwards logic to blame the problem on the green energy act. the green energy act was massively successful - it created a large surplus of clean energy, which was going to be required to help us get off of carbon. this exists. it's in place. what has failed has been the slow adoption of electric vehicles.

...and that's been a failure, largely, at the federal level.

wynne needs to call trudeau up and get him to push some serious tax cuts for electric cars. that's the piece of policy that has been a failure. and, for obvious reasons - we just got out of ten years of petrostate politics.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/electricity-ontario-1.3538157