Showing posts with label Seasonal Rate Class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seasonal Rate Class. Show all posts
Friday, 11 January 2013
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
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
An Update from Hydro One
An Update from Hydro One
In early 2011, FOCA wrote to the President/CEO of Hydro One Inc., outlining our concerns about the higher costs of the “seasonal” rate class which is applied to the property of many of our members. With changing demographics, many “cottagers” are making their cottages their permanent residence. So, seasonal customers are often next door to a permanent resident and paying delivery charges significantly higher than their neighbour.
Why are my seasonal rates higher than year-round residential rates?
In July, Hydro One provided a written response that we have posted to the FOCA website: www.foca.on.ca/rural- services.
In accordance with government regulation, rural year- round residential customers receive cost relief as part of the monthly Rural and Remote Rate Protection subsidy. Without this subsidy, delivery rates for serving rural year-round residential customers would on average be higher.
Why does Hydro One have seasonal rates?
Read the full article in the FOCA News Letter starting on Page 24 Link to the PDF below
http://www.foca.on.ca/xinha/pl
In early 2011, FOCA wrote to the President/CEO of Hydro One Inc., outlining our concerns about the higher costs of the “seasonal” rate class which is applied to the property of many of our members. With changing demographics, many “cottagers” are making their cottages their permanent residence. So, seasonal customers are often next door to a permanent resident and paying delivery charges significantly higher than their neighbour.
Why are my seasonal rates higher than year-round residential rates?
In July, Hydro One provided a written response that we have posted to the FOCA website: www.foca.on.ca/rural- services.
In accordance with government regulation, rural year- round residential customers receive cost relief as part of the monthly Rural and Remote Rate Protection subsidy. Without this subsidy, delivery rates for serving rural year-round residential customers would on average be higher.
In addition, Hydro One has provided the following Q&A
on the subject:
Why does Hydro One have seasonal rates?
Delivery rates are developed using the Ontario Energy
Board’s (OEB) approved cost allocation model, which allo-
cates the costs to serve across the various rate classes
(residential, seasonal, general service, etc.) served by
Hydro One.”
“Unlike other utilities, we serve a large number of seasonal
customers. A seasonal customer is someone who owns a
residential property, in addition to their primary residence,
typically in a rural or remote location. Our seasonal rate
class allows us to recover the costs associated with deliv-
ering electricity to these customers.”
Read the full article in the FOCA News Letter starting on Page 24 Link to the PDF below
http://www.foca.on.ca/xinha/pl
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