The loud fights and quiet conversations driving the quest for a clean power grid in Canada
Jonathan Wilkinson has said that assembling the clean electricity grid of the future is a “nation-building project akin to the building of the railway.” The comparison suggests both the importance of the work and the effort that will be required to complete it.
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![An operator works in the control room at the Independent Electricity Market Operator facility in Mississauga, Ont Friday July 4, 2003. For the initiated, it's called load shedding. To the average homeowner, it's called a blackout. It's something not far from a lot of people's minds in Ontario these days, where hardly a hot, humid summer's day goes by without questions about whether the province has enough power to keep those air conditioners and refrigerators humming. A man stands in front of a bank of computer monitors.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7089124.1705732729!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ont-hydro-blackouts.jpg)
Jonathan Wilkinson has said that assembling the clean electricity grid of the future is a “nation-building project akin to the building of the railway.” The comparison suggests both the importance of the work and the effort that will be required to complete it.