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Record W3158755676 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.8262

The Green Energy Act: Will Ontario Become the Next Germany?

2016· article· en· W3158755676 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Melissa Ha

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEnvironmental law and policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJurisdictionIncentiveRenewable energyClimate changeBusinessFossil fuelNatural resource economicsPolitical scienceEconomicsEconomyLawEngineeringMarket economyWaste management

Abstract

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Climate change and the depletion of fossil fuel are no longer a growing concern, but the most time‐sensitive issues facing the society. In response to this, Ontario passed the Green Energy Act (GEA) intolaw in 2009 and introduced a number of initiatives to promote the “green economy” in the province,making it the first North American jurisdiction with an incentive system modelled after Germany’s feed‐in tariffs (FITs). Many believe that the GEA will improve the business conditions for clean technologyendeavours in Ontario; nonetheless, others doubt that people will be susceptible to the higher energyprice and claim that now is not the right time. This paper aims to critically assess the viability of themarket development for renewable energy as proposed by the GEA. Considering that it is relatively earlyto make any conclusion, the first part of this paper provides a brief summary of what the GEA entails andcompares it with the case of another jurisdiction after which the GEA was modelled – namely, Germany. In the second part, this paper closely examines the effects that the GEA has had on businesses in Ontario. More specifically, analysis of ongoing “green energy” projects is provided based on interviews withindustry professionals in both the public and the private sectors in the province.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.083
Threshold uncertainty score0.601

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.006
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0040.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.114
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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