Decision on Hydro One’s 2015-2019 Distribution Rates Application

Decision on Hydro One’s 2015-2019 Distribution Rates Application

August 31, 2015: Following up on the August 4, 2015 submission to the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) by Hydro One, FOCA has written to the OEB to express concerns about looming rate impacts to customers, especially those being moved out of the seasonal rate class.

Read more on the FOCA website




http://bit.ly/1hPLzeN FOCA

FOCA Elert - July 2015

FOCA Elert - July 2015


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Hydro rates going up?

Hydro rates going up

Now word that hydro rates are going up.
The average customer in Ontario will pay another 137 dollars for electricity next year.

http://bit.ly/19p4AAr CHAY

Ontario Hydro rates going up May 1

Hydro rates going up May 1
TORONTO - Ontario electricity prices are on their way up again.

As of May 1, there will be an increase in time-of-use prices that will boost the average hydro customer’s monthly cost by $2.83, or $33.96 annually.

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) says the jolt upwards in prices includes the arrival of renewable or “green” electricity generation over the next 12 months.

http://bit.ly/1gKxk7q The Toronto Sun

Not sure what exact impact will be for those of us whose cottages are "non-residential" (I forget the exact category) plans but I think it will be higher 

Happy new hydro rates

Happy new hydro rates

Seasonal customers, as a class, are receiving a reduction in the distribution costs portion of their bills, thanks in part to the efforts of the great team at the Federation of Ontario Cottagers’ Associations. FOCA participated in “Settlement Conferences” held last fall by the Ontario Energy Board and presented the case for reduced seasonal rates. The OEB had already decided that HO had been overcharging these customers for their electricity, that the utility was “outside of the regulated limits which specify that the revenues from customers should (roughly) equal the cost of serving them,” as FOCA put it in a recent update. Few cottagers who deal with Hydro One would argue with that assessment.

Read the full article 
http://bit.ly/TPWFkV  Cottage Life

Good News and a thank you to FOCA for helping present this to the OEB