Clean wind and water power from Ontario

When you buy your electricity from Bullfrog Power, you are ensuring that your electricity dollars are supporting 100% clean, renewable power production instead of nuclear, gas, oil and coal.

All of Bullfrog Power's electricity comes from generation facilities, like Sky Generation's wind farm, that have met the Canadian federal government's Environmental Choice Program EcoLogo^M standard for renewable power. Our current electricity mix comprises 20% wind power and 80% low-impact hydroelectric power.

Wind power is among the cleanest sources of energy available, producing no emissions that contribute to air pollution or greenhouse gases. EcoLogo-certified low-impact water power must meet a range of environmental criteria including the protection of indigenous species and local habitat, and measures to minimize fish mortality and to preserve fish migration patterns.

Changing the balance of power
Bullfrog Power is actively supporting the development of new renewable power in Ontario. New turbines on Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula have been commissioned to serve the needs of bullfrogpowered customers in Ontario. Your support can make a difference!

Find out more about our Ontario sources of power here.

Environmental Attributes
Bullfrog Power purchases all the environmental attributes for each MWh it purchases from its suppliers. Bullfrog Power retires the environmental attributes, on behalf of its customers, of each MWh it sells. Bullfrog Power is audited on an annual basis to ensure that it purchases and retires at least as much as it sells. The audits are available to the public on Bullfrog Power’s website.

To view 2007 audit, click here

Understand your impact
The negative environmental attributes of traditional electricity generation are well known: CO₂ is a major greenhouse gas contributing to global warming, NO and SO₂ are major causes of smog, and Radioactive Waste is a highly toxic, long-lasting material that must be protected for thousands of years.

Many of Bullfrog Power’s customers are curious to understand how their purchase of green electricity affects their environmental footprint. Bullfrog Power maintains a calculator to illustrate emission/waste reductions that can be imputed to the environmental attributes being retired (per MWh) on behalf of Bullfrog Power customers.

There are several ways to look at the emissions reductions imputable to the retiring of a MWh of environmental attributes from clean, renewable power. Historically, Bullfrog Power has reported what we call the “System Reduction”. System reduction is an estimate of the emissions/waste that would have been produced by the overall electricity system, if the MWh of clean renewable power had not been produced. We calculate the System Reduction by estimating the emissions/waste produced by a MWh of generation at the margin of the Ontario electricity system.

Beginning in 2008, Bullfrog Power is also calculating and reporting what we call the “Footprint Reduction”. Footprint reduction is an estimate of the emission/waste produced by an average MWh of production in Ontario.

To learn how the calculator was created, click here.

To download the calculator itself (an Excel spreadsheet), click here.

When you make the switch to Bullfrog Power, you will receive estimates of your emission/waste reductions on your billing statement.