Our mission, vision & values

As Ontario’s largest clean electricity generator, see how our focus is on generating safe, efficient, and reliable energy.

About

Our subsidiaries
Our subsidiaries & partnerships are helping us improve electricity generation, storage, and distribution technology to electrify life in one generation.
Who we are
Powering Ontario
Ontario’s need for power never takes a rest and neither does OPG — we’re on the job 24 hours a day, seven days a week, powering Ontario.
What we do
Public safety
We maintain a long-term commitment to the health, safety and energy needs of Ontarians, and it shows in everything we do.
Our commitments in action
Code of Business Conduct
We operate according to a Code of Business Conduct that ensures safety, integrity and efficiency for Ontario.
Governance & regulation

Workers in hard hats look out from the top of an open stairway before a huge Canadian flag in a nuclear plant.

Our role in the system

Our role is to help build a stronger Ontario by investing in clean, affordable power and energy solutions that help grow Ontario's economy.

Power generation

Nuclear power
Nuclear power plays an important role in Ontario and OPG’s energy mix, and its critical to helping us achieving our net-zero goals.
Our power
Educational resources
We support students and educators by providing learning resources developed specifically for teachers, young people and schools.
Our role in the system
Nuclear safety and emergency preparedness
We build safety into every step of our energy production and about our comprehensive emergency preparedness plans for Ontarians.
Our commitment to safety
- Nuclear safety and emergency preparedness
- Water safety

The pristine turbine hall at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station.

Darlington refurbishment project

Once complete, this project will enable production of clean, safe, low-cost, and emission-free electricity from Darlington for 30 more years.

Projects & services

Darlington SMR
The Darlington site is the only location in Canada licenced for new nuclear with a completed and accepted Environmental Assessment.
Our projects
Clean energy credits
With an extensive portfolio of clean energy generation across North America, OPG can offer environmental credits in both Canada and the US.
Our services
- Electrification services
- Clean energy credits

Community investment

The Power for Change Project was designed to give back to Ontario and to the communities where we operate, to help build a cleaner, more sustainable future for generations to come.

Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Territorial acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that our facilities are located within the traditional and treaty territory of Indigenous Nations and communities.

Communities

Territorial Acknowledgement
- Territorial Acknowledgement
  OPG respectfully acknowledges that the lands on which its generating stations and other assets are located are within the traditional and treaty territory of many Indigenous communities. Click to read more.
Central Ontario
- Central Ontario
  Central Ontario is home to 20 of our hydroelectric facilities, some of which, like our Sills Island Generating Station, have been part of their community for more than one hundred years.
Eastern Ontario
- Eastern Ontario
  Eastern Ontario is host to one gas-fired generating station and 15 of our hydroelectric generating stations on the St. Lawrence, Ottawa and Madawaska Rivers.
Northeastern Ontario
- Northeastern Ontario
  Northeastern Ontario contains 14 of our hydroelectric stations, including several we built or redeveloped through key partnerships with local Indigenous communities.
Northwestern Ontario
- Northwestern Ontario
  Northwestern Ontario hosts 11 of our hydroelectric stations as well as a former coal generating station that we converted to use biomass as fuel.
Southern Ontario - Durham Region
- Southern Ontario - Durham Region
  The golden horseshoe of Southern Ontario is home to key operations including our Darlington and Pickering nuclear stations in Clarington and Pickering.
Southern Ontario - Niagara Region
- Southern Ontario - Niagara Region
  The golden horseshoe of Southern Ontario is home to key operations including our iconic Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric stations in Niagara Falls.
Southwestern Ontario
- Southwestern Ontario
  Southwestern Ontario is host to our NSS - Western Waste Management Facility in Bruce County, our Eugenia hydroelectric station near Meaford, and our Nanticoke Solar Facility on the site of the former Nanticoke coal station.

Hydroelectric Water Portal (water.opg.com)

Find water level and flow information from gauges on rivers where OPG operates hydroelectric stations in Ontario.

News & resources

Watt’s New
In our revamped e-newsletter, find out how we're helping electrify Ontario while strengthening its economy, communities, and the environment.
Newsroom
Visitor centres
At our visitor centres, the public is welcomed to see how their power is made and learn about Ontario's low-carbon electricity system.
Educational resources
Hydroelectric Water Portal (water.opg.com)

Careers
Investors
Reports
OPG Websites
- Initiatives
- Subsidiaries

Our commitment to ESG & sustainability

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Being a responsible corporate citizen is at the heart of everything Ontario Power Generation (OPG) does and is fundamental to our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Operating in a manner consistent with our ESG principles is critical to our future success, and our ability to deliver value to our stakeholders.

OPG's 2023 Integrated ESG and Annual Report

Learn more about how we’re electrifying life in one generation.

Vision 2045: How OPG is working towards our vision of electrifying life in one generation

UN Sustainable Development Goals

OPG supports the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Leadership by example

By 2030

be a global leader in ED&I by implementing our 10-year ED&I Strategy

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of our Board of Directors are women and/or racialized people

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of our enterprise leadership team is represented by designated ED&I groups

ESG in action

More about sustainability

Want to learn more about sustainability at OPG? Explore the additional information below.

Goals and opportunities

Reporting and performance data

Environmental management system

ISO 14001 Certificate (PDF)

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Our stories

The Darlington New Nuclear Project site, future home of North America's first Small Modular Reactor.

Our stories · 10 min read

OPG ready to begin building North America’s first Small Modular Reactor

OPG has received the green light to build North America’s first commercial, grid-scale Small Modular Reactor.

An electric bus from the Toronto Transit Commission

Our stories · 8 min read

OPG subsidiary PowerON helping charge up public transportation

This Earth Day, OPG subsidiary PowerON is continuing to help the Toronto Transit Commission transition to a fully electric bus fleet.

Cliff Edwards is Project Administrator on OPG’s Frederick House Lake Dam Rehabilitation Project in northern Ontario.

Our stories · 9 min read

Project Administrator stays open to new experiences on OPG’s Frederick House Lake Dam project

Project Administrator Cliff Edwards shares his experience working on OPG’s Frederick House Lake Dam Rehabilitation Project in northern Ontario.

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