Additional firm capacity was also included to meet reserve margin targets of each province. (canwea.ca)
The industry regularly monitors the supply situation using a measure called reserve margin. (eia.gov)
Hypothetically, if a region projecting 20 GW of wind capacity by 2019 decreased its capacity value by one percentage - point from 12 % to 11 %, and had to replace that lost wind capacity in order to meet its target reserve margin, it would require an additional 200 MW of capacity resources by 2019. (eia.gov)