Sixteen years of the expensive disaster of non-performing, out of phase with demand wind power don’t seem to matter.
July 11, 2025
After months of back and forth on approval process and contract details, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) finally launched its Long-Term-2 Request For Proposals or, in government anagram-speak, the LT2-RFP.
The RFP covers a variety of requirements, under Energy and Capacity, and will include wind, solar, biomass, gas and battery storage.
The schedule for the process for 2025-26:
| Final Documents released / Questions and Comment period opens | June 27, 2025 | June 27, 2025 |
| Deadline for Questions and Comments | July 24, 2025 | August 21, 2025 |
| IESO’s deadline for Addenda issuance | August 14, 2025 | September 11, 2025 |
| Registration deadline | September 4, 2025 | October 3, 2025 |
| Proposal Submission deadline | October 16, 2025 | December 18, 2025 |
| Target date to notify Selected Proponents | April 14, 2026 | June 16, 2026 |
Several wind power projects were already proposed, and more are surfacing. As of today’s date, the following proposals are in play.
Cedar Flats, 200 MW, Oxford County, Township of Malahide, developer wpd *
Bower Hill, South West Oxford, developer ProWind*
Kerns and Hudson: 2 projects proposed, one each by Horizon Wind and EDF
Brooke-Alvinston: 1 project proposed by Venfor Inc.
Chatham-Kent: proposal by Capstone Energy, 200 megawatts, in Howard and Harwach Townships
Thunder Bay, developer EDF
Sault Ste Marie plus Prince, Pennefather and Aweres townships. “Canuck Wind”, Developer EDF.
Please refer to our Contracts page in future, should more projects come forward as proposals.
Wind power developers must now have a municipal support resolution at the time of proposal, so the companies are anxious to get an indication that they should go forward as soon as possible. In the case of the Sault Ste Marie project by EDF for example, Council will be asked for a vote this coming Monday though few people are aware of the project at all. There have been NO public meetings or information events, and the project website is password protected and not available to the public. (This may be in contravention of the IESO rules)
Resources and information are available on our Take action page, here.