Category Archives: Reforming Ontario’s Local Electrical Distribution Sector

(March 19, 2001) Electricity deregulation may be haunting words to political officials and consumers, but industry insiders see the process as a necessary fact of life that will soon encompass all of North America and the world – and much of the Ontario energy sector wants to join in on it. Continue reading →

(January 19, 2001) Toronto – Ontario is heading toward the kind of blackout calamity that’s hobbled California if the province doesn’t fix its flawed plan to deregulate electricity, a prominent analyst warned yesterday. Continue reading →

(January 6, 2001) Mindy Spatt’s message to Ontario is clear: “Don’t do anything we did.” Spatt, a consumer advocate, is speaking from her office in San Francisco. She’s talking about electricity, something everyone uses and takes for granted – until it isn’t there. Continue reading →

(January 3, 2001) The Ontario government has granted some of the largest industrial electricity consumers in the province secret cut-rate prices for four years after the market opens for competition later this year, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail. Continue reading →

(December 20, 2000) Hydro rates are goin up. The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has approved a 2.6 per cent increase in hydro rates for Enersource Hydro Mississauga custombers to take place immediately. Continue reading →

(November 14, 2000) Deregulation, debt loads, market forces will see users digging deeper, experts say. The Ontario electricity market, the biggest in the country, is about to be jolted by higher and more volatile power rates, according to industry experts. Continue reading →

(November 10, 2000) Engineer can’t get answer about unbundled bills. Electricity bills are changing with the advent of a competitive market. But customers may not understand the new “unbundled” bills or how the charges are calculated. Paul Kozma, a retired engineer, has gone to great lengths to figure out his Toronto Hydro bill. Continue reading →

(October 31, 2000) “Nobody knows what the new price of electricity will be,” said Peter Dyne, who is in charge of the energy committee for the Consumers’ Association of Canada. “So people should wait until the market opens.” Continue reading →

(October 2, 2000) The Ontario Energy Board has ruled that electricity rate increases must be phased-in over a three-year period. The regulatory agency said Friday electrical utilities would only be allowed higher increases in special circumstances. Continue reading →

(September 29, 2000) Looming electricity rate increases sought by local utilities must be phased in over a three-year period, the Ontario Energy Board has ruled. Continue reading →