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Tag Archives: Energy Probe
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.
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.
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.
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?
Posted in Costs, Electricity, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform
Tagged Brady Yauch, electricity, electricity rates, energy, Energy Probe, green energy, Ontario electricity, Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Power Authority
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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.
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.
Renewable energy not walking the talk on competitiveness
(February 23, 2015) When subsidies are cut, renewable energy investment largely disappears.
“Don’t subsidize us,” big business asks Ontario Energy Board
(January 9, 2015) Ontario’s biggest users of natural gas told the Ontario Energy Board they don’t need subsidies to take conservation seriously.
Posted in Benefits, Conservation
Tagged Brady Yauch, Energy Probe, gas conservation, natural gas, OEB, Ontario Energy Board
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Ontario’s Auditor General lays into Ministry of Energy
(December 12, 2014) A new report from Ontario’s Auditor General sharply criticizes a number of policies in the province’s electricity sector.
Posted in Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Utility Reform
Tagged Brady Yauch, electricity, Energy Probe, global adjustment, green energy, Ontario Auditor General, Ontario electricity, Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Power Authority, Renewable Energy
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90% of Ontario’s wind subsidies benefit a select few multinationals: study
(November 25, 2014) Subsidies given to Ontario’s wind farm owners largely benefit a select few multinational corporations, a new Energy Probe study shows.
Posted in Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector
Tagged Brady Yauch, Energy Probe, green energy, Green Energy Act, industrial wind turbines, Ontario energy policies, Ontario Feed-in-Tariff, Ontario Wind Power, Wind Concerns Ontario, wind energy
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