A Brampton power plant “gamed” Ontario’s electricity system to get at least $89 million in payments it was not entitled to over a three-year period ending in 2012, says an explosive new report that warns it could happen again. The Ontario Energy Board found the Goreway Station Partnership “repeatedly exploited defects” in the system by which the provincial Independent Electricity System Operator pays suppliers for power. Goreway has been fined $10 million and repaid a “substantial portion” of the inappropriate payments received. The energy board report was quietly posted on the agency’s website November 2. Smith asked Duguid why Goreway executive Rob Coulbeck was on a government panel with two dozen members from the industry studying ways to renew the province’s power system.

Source: thestar December 05, 2017 15:39 UTC