OPG’s first ever solar power facility is now online and harnessing the sun’s rays to generate clean, renewable electricity for Ontario.
The new 44-megawatt Nanticoke Solar was built in partnership with the Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. The facility, situated along Lake Erie in Haldimand County, was put into service in March 2019, on schedule and on budget.
Built on the former site of Ontario’s largest coal-fired plant, Nanticoke Generating Station (GS), the solar facility was connected to the provincial grid just more than a year after the former coal giant’s twin smokestacks came tumbling down. Nanticoke GS operated for more than 40 years before it stopped using coal as fuel in 2013. The old plant’s powerhouse is expected to be demolished later this year.
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