[Rant] Ontario Hydro-you used less energy so you have to pay more. Huh?

[FallenPixels]

Horizon Utilities Corporation has applied to the Ontario Energy Board to decrease the amount it charges by approximately $0.17 each month for the typical residential customer beginning on January 1, 2017. Other customers, including businesses, may be affected as well.

The requested rate decrease is based on a framework approved by the Ontario Energy Board for the period 2015 to 2019 and is tied to costs for 2017 which includes measures to promote efficiency.

[majormom]

$985 for 2 months - they will not be gettingit all on the due date

[Frugalbigmama]

$985 for 2 months - they will not be gettingit all on the due date

Ouch!!

[FallenPixels]

$985 for 2 months - they will not be gettingit all on the due date

Ouchie, I thought mine was at $300 for 9 weeks

[seylz_gurl]

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/christi..._12458248.html

"While defending her government's new tax on home heating fuels and gasoline, the premier said that the new tax is necessary because Ontarians are 'very bad actors in terms of our per capita emissions.' That's right, the new tax on keeping your family warm in the winter and on your daily commute to work is because Ontarians are "bad actors." "

Cold climate, long distances, umm, no your fault Ontarians.

[seylz_gurl]

"Wynne handed out $163 million to the Liberal Party's biggest corporate donor, GreenField Group."

Who is owned by the green industry?

[seylz_gurl]

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/o...81595240055326

Companies don't worry about the competition anymore, they worry about the government. A company that has been here since the 1950s is considering moving to the US from Ontario due to the high costs of hydro. In addition the new cap and trade coming into effect.

[seylz_gurl]

http://business.financialpost.com/ne..._lsa=3914-a321

Why is your hydro bill so expensive? Here is explanation why your bill is so high.

[Shwa Girl]

http://business.financialpost.com/ne..._lsa=3914-a321

Why is your hydro bill so expensive? Here is explanation why your bill is so high.

Some good news about half hour ago. Ontario Hydro holding rates the same until April 2017.

Ontario holds line on winter hydro rates
TORONTO — For the first time in eight years, electricity rates in Ontario will not rise on Nov. 1.
The Ontario Energy Board sets rates for customers on time-of-use pricing every May and November, when it also changes the hours for peak and off-peak rates.
The board says it is holding the line on rates for about five million Ontario households and small business customers next month for the first time since 2008.
Electricity customers will continue paying the same rates they've had since last May until May 2017.
The off-peak rate of 8.7 cents a kilowatt hour is less than half the on-peak rate of 18 cents per kwh, and off-peak hours expand to 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. weekdays and all day weekends and holidays starting next month.
Mid-peak hours, which cost 13.2 cents a kwh, will run from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. weekdays, while on-peak hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. weekdays.
---

[Tweets77]

I will believe it when I see it.

Some good news about half hour ago. Ontario Hydro holding rates the same until April 2017.

[kerrylj]

I have a magnet on my fridge from when they started the tiered rates in my area and back then the highest time was 12 cents / kwh so this means we have had a 50% increase in the rates since then..about time they stopped putting it up and up.

[Tweets77]

With everything factored in...we pay .28 cents a kilowatt hour

[SassyAshley]

I read an article that said since Time Of Use came into effect Hydro rates have increased 70%. I believe this number factors in changes to rates, delivery charges & the removal of any rebates.

[Ciel]

Expect more bill increases:

In the government’s public accounts for 2015-16, the Independent Electricity System Operator reported a “previously unrecognized actuarial loss and past service costs” of just over $80 million.
The provincial agency which oversees Ontario’s electricity market says it will raise fees it charges the power industry to recover the losses as part of its accumulated deficit charge.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-80m-loss.html

[Shwa Girl]

Expect more bill increases:


https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-80m-loss.html

looks like the Ontario Liberal government is starting to campaign for the June 2018 election, using hydro rates as a promise
the Liberal government is looking at buying cheaper electricity from Quebec
Now, why oh why didn't they look at this before???