The Ontario election scheduled for October 6 has a lot of people in the renewable energy industry concerned that a new Progressive Conservative government is going to gut the sector by killing the landmark Feed-in-Tariff Program. But Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) president Elizabeth McDonald says not to begin jumping to conclusions.

A new brief from the CD Howe Institute says there is a short-term solution to Ontario’s supply-demand electricity problem: the province could save money, and address its electricity over-supply problem at the same time by paying producers with fixed-price contracts not to generate.