Category Archives: Reforming Ontario’s Local Electrical Distribution Sector

(September 15, 2000) Ontario will have a new privately owned, gas-fired electricity generating plant up and running near Sarnia two years from now. Continue reading →

(September 13, 2000) I think if you look at going back to the market design committee process and the Ministry of Energy’s own process in terms of how the components of the cost of electricity are going to be redistributed, it was always intended that distribution rates would go up and that generation rates and some of the other things would come down and, in the long run, it would all balance out. [Transcript v.2, p.422, 11., 18-25] Continue reading →

(August 9, 2000) Utilities, activists square off over electricity costs. Starting today, a procession of lawyers, lobbyists and electric utility managers will troop in and out of a Spartan hearing room in an office tower at Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. Continue reading →

(July 27, 2000) Energy Probe intervened in the RP-1999-0034 proceeding particularly with respect to the issues now involved in this proceeding. In RP -1999-0034, Energy Probe believes that it took a unique perspective on the issues, being the only party to fundamentally oppose a return to the utility on capital invested by rate payers and the only public interest party to argue that there is no logical distinction between contributed capital and other sources of retained earnings for the purposes of return, in that it has all come from rate payers. Continue reading →

(July 22, 2000) Well, something is going to happen to change the way Ontario residents and businesses buy their electricity. Continue reading →

(June 29, 2000) One of the little mysteries of the Canadian Alliance leadership race is the belief that the Harris Tories in Ontario offer a blueprint for national policy and good government. Continue reading →

(June 14, 2000) Ontario’s plans to freeze electricity distribution rates could lead to regulatory chaos — nothing new to the province’s electric market reform. But it is not too late for the government to fix the situation. Continue reading →

(June 4, 2000) Confused by the door-to-door salespeople trying to sign you up to natural gas contracts? Just wait until the electricity peddlers hit the streets. Continue reading →

(June 1, 2000) Toronto Hydro is about to impose shocking rate increases on its consumers. Residential consumers using the average amount of electricity for the residential class will see distribution rates rise by 39% initially and 58% once the increase is fully implemented in 2001. Continue reading →

(May 29, 2000) Last February, the Ontario Energy Board gave municipal utilities the go-ahead to raise distribution prices as part of the province’s restructuring of the electricity market. Continue reading →