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Updated on 17 September 2026

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Energy Futures for Large Cities

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This website originated as documentation of research on large urban agglomerations on this continent, of which Mississauga and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are part. A decade after the publication of Mississauga: Building a Livable City, other issues took precedence: the looming shortage of energy, coupled with a rapidly deteriorating environment, called for urgent consideration.

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Rapidly growing urban centers require ever-larger energy resources, even as the broader trend moves away from fossil fuels to ease the mounting environmental stress caused by pollution and climate change. Building new nuclear plants remains exceedingly expensive and slow, and while newer nuclear technologies show real promise, they remain largely unproven at commercial scale. Renewable energy, by contrast, has fallen sharply in cost and is now often cheaper to build and operate than nuclear power. New renewable energy projects are proliferating worldwide, particularly across Europe and China, both of which are increasingly charting their own course apart from current U.S. energy policy.

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Ontario continues to treat nuclear power as its preferred path forward, even as other Canadian provinces pursue significant expansions of wind and solar capacity. At the same time, entirely new approaches to nuclear power are emerging, including designs intended to be built once and deployed wherever they are needed most.

This webpage tracks these developments as they unfold, across both nuclear and renewable energy, in Ontario and around the world.

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Earlier research was presented on the webpage The Book, with continuing updates on other webpages. The book is available from Amazon in printed and Kindle versions.

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