To meet the growing needs of the province, Ontario must build an almost entirely new electricity system by 2025. Estimates show that over the next 20 years, Ontario will need to refurbish, rebuild, replace or conserve 25,000 megawatts of generating capacity.Building new generation sources for electricity is only part of the answer. There are tremendous opportunities to reduce the supply-demand gap through a shift in when electricity is used by consumers.

By introducing advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and time-of-use (TOU) rates—consumers will have an incentive to shift their consumption patterns in terms of when and how they use electricity.

For Ontario, this new infrastructure will provide a foundation for achieving more than a five percent reduction in provincial demand through load shifting, energy savings and price awareness.

Read more about Capgemini’s Smart Metering capability.