Ontario has ambitions to grow its hydrogen industry
Ontario’s hydrogen strategy divides opinion
One year on from its launch, Hydrogen Economist interviewees offer diverging views on the provincial government’s strategy and its impact to date
Ontario’s provincial government released its Low-Carbon Hydrogen Strategy in April 2022. The document identifies five potential hydrogen hubs, while backing plans by Atura Power—the largest operator of combined cycle gas-fired power plants in Ontario—to develop 20MW of green hydrogen production projects in the Niagara Falls region by providing an exemption from a levy on electricity generation Hydrogen Economist spoke to Matthew Morrish, hydrogen business development manager at Atura, and Mark Winfield, a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, for positive and negative views respectively on Ontario’s strategy and its impact to date. Positive
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