Actually I don't think the article is BS. I support green energy but there are some real technical problems here.
I think the government is botching the green energy transition. They have made the incentives really high; depending on the size of your facility, they will pay 10X as much for solar energy as what they sell electricity for. Predictably enough there is a huge build-out of green energy in process. That's great, but they've done nothing to prepare the grid for this. I don't think they were expecting the uptake to be so quick. Duh. Other faults with their plans include:
1. Wind power generates energy on its own schedule, and with the current rules they don't allow Ontario Hydro to NOT buy the power if they have too much capacity online. As a result, they have to PAY other utilities to take the power from them. Yes, you read that correctly; if there is too much capacity the price of the power goes negative. Nuclear plants provide base generation that can't be ramped up and down based on demand, and we have a lot of nuclear here.
2. They set different incentives for solar, large solar, and wind power. Why does wind get 1/3 the incentive of solar? Why is the government deciding that solar is better than wind (does that even make sense at Canada's latitude?). Why don't they have any incentive for other types of green energy -- how about small-scale hydro plants? Shouldn't they set an incentive for qualifying green energy and let the free market decide which technology is best?
3. So many people are getting on board that they're going to end up having to triple electricity rates in Ontario. That will create a voter backlash that will likely get the program trashed.