Game 1, Round 4: Canadiana -- Electricity

Game 1, Round 4: Canadiana -- Electricity
1. Ontario Hydro was split into five different companies in 1999.  What is
   the name of the largest successor company that is responsible for about
   70% of the electricity generation in our province?

	Ontario Power Generation (accept OPG)

2. Who was the first chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Commisson of
   Ontario (1906), the precursor to Ontario Hydro?  Two hydroelectric
   power stations are named for him.

	Sir Adam Beck

3. There are three nuclear plant sites (covering five nuclear plant
   installations) in Ontario.  Please name two out of three sites.

	Pickering, Darlington, Bruce

	(Both Pickering and Bruce have A & B sites, bringing the total
	 number of nuclear plants to five.)

4. This coal-fired generating station is North America's largest and the
   single worst air pollution source for southern Ontario and northern New
   York state.  It is in the county of Haldimand, Ontario, near Lake Erie.
   Name it.

	Nanticoke

5. At what time, Eastern Daylight, did the power fail in Toronto on
   August 13, 2003?  Answer within 30 minutes on either side.

	4:11 pm (accept 3:41 - 4:41)

6. All power-generating nuclear plants in Ontario -- in fact, all in
   Canada -- use this type of reactor.  It's a pressurized Heavy Water
   Reactor variant, and a trademark.

	CANDU

7. The D in CANDU is another name for the kind of hydrogen that is
   part of heavy water.  What does it stand for?

	Deuterium
	(CANDU is CANadian Deuterium-Uranium reactor)

8. Ontario Power Generation has also begun the process for building up to
   four new nuclear units at which Ontario site?  (There is a lengthy
   approvals process in place including a full Environmental Assessment,
   which will take 3-4 years to complete.)

	Darlington

9. What is the name of the coal-burning generating station just east of
   Port Credit that was shut down in April 2005 and demolished on
   June 12, 2006?  Its smokestacks were nicknamed the Four Sisters.

	Lakeview


10. The Exhibition Place Wind Turbine was constructed in 2002 and
   generates an average of 1000 megawatt hours of power per year.
   What is the name of the company that co-owns that wind turbine with
   Toronto Hydro and is developing other locally-owned wind projects?

	WindShare