Case Study · Energy & infrastructure
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station: Contribution of Continued Operation
How continued operation of a major generating station propagates through employment, household affordability, GDP and public revenues.
Headline finding
$1.54B GDP / yr
Ontario Power Generation · 2018
What the Work Shows
Using detailed operational and capital-expenditure data from Ontario Power Generation, CANCEA modelled the wider contribution of continued Pickering operation across industries, workers, wages and government revenues.
The analysis estimated average annual contributions of about $1.54 billion to Ontario GDP, 7,590 full-time-equivalent jobs, $748 million in wages and $290 million in government revenues. It also examined the effect of replacement generation costs on household affordability.
Why It Matters
The case shows how infrastructure-operating decisions affect more than the facility itself: supply chains, workers, government revenues and household costs move together.
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