Brandon Schaufele is an associate professor of business, economics and public policy at the Ivey Business School of Western University. He is also the director of the Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre. He writes a new Op-ed that was published in the Globe and Mail.
Ontario is placing a $47.7-billion bet on nuclear refurbishments and small modular reactors, largely through Ontario Power Generation (OPG). Nuclear power is seen as necessary to meet surging electricity demand from electrification, data centres and industrial growth. But being necessary does not make it cheap.
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