52 h. ago The Ontario Sunshine List just dropped in 2025 and here's who took home the most

The 2024 Ontario Sunshine List is officially out! March's annual window into wages gives Ontario residents a glimpse of just how much public sector employees raked in the previous year.This is an annual list that discloses salaries for any public service employee who earns over $100,000, first introduced in 1996 by former Premier Mike Harris.The latest list of top earners dropped the first week of spring 2025, covering salaries earned in 2024. The top public sector earner of the year was Ken Hartwick, Ontario Power Generation's President and CEO, who earned $2,010,895.76 of taxpayer money last year. Hartwick has been with the OPG since March 2016, when he was hired as the energy provider's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President OPGWhile not the highest earners, noteworthy figures include Premier Doug Ford, who took home $208,974 (the same salary he earned the year before), and TVO journalist Steve Paikin, who ear...

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65 h. ago Not ‘science fiction’: B.C. company touts big milestone in fusion power generation

Fusion reactions are the same source that power stars -- where hydrogen atoms smash and fuse together into helium creating a massive blast of energy. 

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69 h. ago Over 377,000 Ontario public servants appear on Sunshine List

Former Ontario Power Generation CEO Kenneth Hartwick tops list again, taking home $2 million in annual salary

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3 d. ago Ontario releases annual sunshine list of highest earners — Metrolinx CEO makes top 5

The three highest-paid civil servants in the province all worked for Ontario Power Generation but recently departed Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster cracked the top five.

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2 w. ago Botswana to Seek 1.5 GW of Solar Power to Speed Green Transition

Botswana will this month seek proposals for the construction of 1.5 gigawatts of solar power generation as it seeks to cut its reliance on coal, the country’s mines and energy minister said.

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2 w. ago AMD Unveils 5th Gen AMD EPYC Embedded Processors Delivering Leadership Performance, Efficiency and Long Product Lifecycles for Networking, Storage, and Industrial Edge Markets

— High-performance “Zen 5” architecture offers server-grade performance and efficiency combined with purpose-built features for optimized product longevity and system resiliency — — Cisco and IBM among the first technology partners to adopt 5th Gen AMD EPYC Embedded CPUs to power next generation platforms —   NUREMBERG, Germany, March 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today […]

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2 w. ago Top US Utility Says Gas Can Meet Only a Fraction of Power Demand

NextEra Energy Inc., the biggest US utility and No. 1 developer of wind and solar generation, believes power plants fueled by natural gas can meet only a sliver of the unprecedented electricity demand growth forecast through the end of the decade.

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