Hydro Ontario

• Ontario’s hydro subsidy for industrial, commercial businesses to cost estimated $15.2B by 2040: FAO

  The province also said the program would subsidize the high cost of green energy contracts and lessen the impact they have on business ratepayers.

  Politics

  Mar 18, 2021
  
• Coronavirus: Ontario’s electricity price cap scheduled to end on Thursday

  As of Jan. 1 and for a period of 28 days, the Ontario government set electricity prices at the off-peak rate for all time-of-use and tiered customers.

  Consumer

  Jan 25, 2021
  
• Advertisement
• Coronavirus: Ontario’s latest electricity measures leave out hundreds of thousands of customers

  Ontario's ban on disconnecting electricity during the COVID-19 pandemic and price roll-backs for energy do not apply to hundreds of thousands of customers.

  Consumer

  Mar 26, 2020
• Advertisement
• Ontario hydro companies serving 240,000 customers voluntarily ban winter disconnections

  Hydro companies in Ontario with roughly 240,000 customers announced Tuesday they will voluntarily stop disconnecting customers for non-payment after questions from Global News.

  Consumer

  Feb 5, 2019
• Hydro One ordered to substantially lower rate increase for 2018

  Hydro One wanted to be able to raise its transmission rates by 4.8 per cent in 2018.

  Canada

  Dec 22, 2017
• Ontario Liberals on upswing despite Kathleen Wynne’s unpopularity, government polling shows

  The last nine of months of internal polling suggest improving public opinion fortunes for a now somewhat less unpopular Liberal government.

  Politics

  Aug 28, 2017
• Can anyone really ‘fix’ hydro?

  The hydro issue continues to be a big issue, but after listening to all three leaders outline their plans, I'm not sure anyone has a handle on a solution to our hydro woes.

  Commentary

  Jun 19, 2017
• Ontario manufacturers say hydro plan doesn’t help them

  Thousands of Ontario businesses are too big for one hydro savings program and too small for the other.

  Economy

  Apr 11, 2017
• Advertisement
• Hydro: Ontario pulls the plug on winter disconnects

  After months of pressure to end winter hydro disconnections in Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government has finally passed legislation that will prohibit utility companies from cutting off a customer’s power during the winter.

  Canada

  Feb 22, 2017
• Advertisement
• Energy costs for Ontario arena thousands more than rink in New York

  Keeping the ice from melting in your local arena is a lot more expensive in Ontario than across the border in the state of New York.

  Jan 31, 2017