The NDP plan to reduce hydro rates also includes proposals to cap private power company profits and ending mandatory time-of-use pricing. ...
Category: Energy and the Environment
‘Hindsight is 20-20’: Energy minister admits green energy program led to ‘sub-optimal outcomes’
Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault is sticking up for the "what" behind Ontario's green energy procurements, but not so much the "how." ...
Milloy: On hydro rates, opposition leaders can learn from electoral reform failure
Columnist John Milloy cautions the NDP and Tories in making campaign promises they may not be able to keep on hydro rates. ...
Ontario Energy Board orders power companies to stop winter disconnections
Local distribution companies are now blocked from installing a “load limiting device” to block power to a home simply because a person is behind on paying their hydro bill. ...
Seen: Bill to stop winter hydro disconnections also covers natural gas cut-offs
A bill aiming to end winter disconnections by electricity utilities could also block natural gas distributors from doing the same to customers behind on their heating bills. Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault tabled Bill ...
Tories make a stink over timing of changes to Ontario electric car rebates
"This certainly doesn’t pass the smell test," said a PC critic. ...
Energy minister says Ontario prepared to eat $28M cost of offshore wind case
Windstream has filed an application to recoup the $28 million a trade tribunal says it's owed. ...
Horwath slams electricity industry regulator as NDP readies hydro relief platform
“The Ontario Energy Board should be looking out for the consumer far better than it does or it has been and that needs to be changed," said Horwath. ...
All parties pass bill to stop winter hydro disconnections, but some details still to come
The high drama over winter hydro disconnections came to its conclusion Wednesday morning, with the passage of a standalone bill addressing the issue. ...
Government gaffes to blame for Ontario’s rising electricity rates: poll
Almost half of those surveyed by Forum Research blame the government's actions for rising hydro rates. ...
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