Disconnected: Ontario can’t build homes without rebuilding its power grid
Open this photo in gallery:According to the Electricity Distributors Association, the tab for upgrading networks over the next couple of decades will amount to between $103-billion and $120-billion. The dozen housing developers behind them had proposed to build each home with charging equipment for electric vehicles; they would also have rough-ins and conduits ready should owners want to install solar panels and batteries. But there was a problem: Brooklin lies smack in the middle of one of the most electricity-starved areas around Toronto.
- ▪Open this photo in gallery:According to the Electricity Distributors Association, the tab for upgrading networks over the next couple of decades will amount to between $103-billion and $120-billion.
- ▪The dozen housing developers behind them had proposed to build each home with charging equipment for electric vehicles; they would also have rough-ins and conduits ready should owners want to install solar panels and batteries.
- ▪But there was a problem: Brooklin lies smack in the middle of one of the most electricity-starved areas around Toronto.
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Open this photo in gallery:According to the Electricity Distributors Association, the tab for upgrading networks over the next couple of decades will amount to between $103-billion and $120-billion. Only $450-billion has been spent so far this century across Canada on electricity infrastructure.Andres Valenzuela/The Globe and MailShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountThe subdivisions planned around the small village of Brooklin, Ont., were billed as neighbourhoods of the future. The dozen housing developers behind them had proposed to build each home with charging equipment for electric vehicles; they would also have rough-ins and conduits ready should owners want to install solar panels and batteries.
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