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The name of the company that provided gas to residents in Toronto in the 1840s-1880s

Consumers' Gas Company

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What obstacle did the electric companies face in 1902?

A coal famine

100

Name 1 of the buildings that is cooled by the Enwave Deep Lake Cooling System

Toronto City Hall, Toronto General Hospital or Scotiabank Arena

100

Name 1 of the cities where new data centres are being built

Toronto, Mississauga, Vaughn, Markham or Scarborough

100

Over half of Toronto's pollution comes from buildings. True or False?

True; it mostly comes from burning natural gas for heat

200
Year that Toronto's first telephone exchange opened

1879

200

Due to the coal famine, the electric companies switched to hydroelectric power drawn from Niagara Falls in 1910. True or False?

False; they switched from coal to hydroelectric power in 1906.

200

Toronto Hydro built a solar farm at Exhibition Place in 2003 due to greater environmental consciousness. True or False?

False; they built a wind turbine

200

Hyperscale AI data centres use large quantities of ___ for cooling

Water

200

By what year does the City of Toronto want to replace all gas pumps with electric heat pumps?

2040

300

The name of the man who first installed electric lighting in Toronto in 1881

John J. Wright

300

How much money did Toronto Hydro spend between 1964 to 1974 to bury overhead distribution wires and transformers?

$31 million

300

The number of residents Toronto Hydro currently serves

797,000 residents

300
The Ontario government is building a new nuclear reactors in Port Hope and Tiverton. True or False?

True; these projects cost a combined $250 billion

300

The government of Ontario wants data centres to generate their own power. True or False?

True

400
The Toronto Incandescent Electric Company held the Canadian patent to this person's bulb design
Thomas Edison
400
The year the Toronto Hydro-Electric System was constructed

1911

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Name one of the projects Toronto Hydro has integrated into the grid for better energy storage and cooling

The Clare R. Copeland Transformer Station, Hydrostor or the Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling system

400

How much of Ontario's energy output is made up of nuclear energy?

50%
400

Why did the demand for electricity increase in the 1990s?

The Internet

500

By 1896, the Toronto Electric Light Company and the Toronto Incandescent Electric Light Company dominated the market for energy in Toronto. True or False?

True; they achieved such dominance due to electric lighting and electric railways becoming widespread

500

Name one of the additions to the Toronto skyline that was made during the 1960s and 1970s

First Canadian Place, Royal Bank Plaza, Hydro Place or the CN Tower

500

What percentage of residents in Ontario face energy poverty?

12%

500

How can Toronto offset its carbon emissions?

By expanding the tree canopy or by deploying carbon capture and storage technologies

500

The Clare R. Copeland Transformer Station is Canada's first completely underground transformer station. True or False?

False; it is Canada's second underground transformer station, with the first being the Cathedral Square Park station in downtown Vancouver