How utilities are trying to con customers and regulators into higher rates

(May 11, 2015) Ontario’s electricity distributors are doing whatever it takes to hike rates. Continue reading

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Parker Gallant: The Chiarelli charade

(May 3, 2015) Reading an April 27 interview in the Almaguin News with Ontario’s Energy Minister, Bob Chiarelli, gives one the impression that he resides in a state of mind the rest of Ontario’s residents don’t understand. Continue reading

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Revamped Hydro One will tread line between private, public enterprise

(April 27, 2015) Hydro One Inc. will face private-sector challenges from which it is currently immune when Ontario’s government sheds a 60% stake in the electricity transmission and distribution utility in an IPO.  Continue reading

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Much needed reforms could focus on Hydro One employees’ pensions

(April 24, 2015) Hydro One’s distribution arm ranks among the worst in North America.

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Lawrence Solomon: Narendra Modi’s muscular free market

(April 16, 2015) “India’s “clean energy revolution” is based on a doubling of India’s coal production over the next five years.”

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Lawrence Solomon: Global warming doomsayers take note: Earth’s 19th Little Ice Age has begun

(March 27, 2015) With a century of cold weather ahead, the public won’t buy that cold weather is caused by global warming. Continue reading

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Higher hydro bills to pay for high hydro bills

(March 27, 2015) Ontario’s Ministry of Energy is hiking hydro bills on all ratepayers in an effort to stop already high hydro bills.  Make sense? Continue reading

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Parker Gallant: IESO’s windy forecasts: more will produce less

(March 26, 2015) The Independent Electricity System Operator’s quarterly “18 Month Outlook: An Assessment of the Reliability and Operability of the Ontario Electricity System” has this writer a bit rattled. Continue reading

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10 things you need to know from Hydro One’s rate application

(March 17, 2015) Energy Probe breaks down 10 important parts of the OEB’s decision on Hydro One’s distribution rate application.  Continue reading

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Customer rights get powered up in privatized electricity systems

(March 13, 2015) Customers with private electricity distributors are better protected from blackouts and other disruptions.
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