The rates and graph have now been updated for all jurisdictions to reflect the prices as of May 1st 2016.
Have you had enough of escalating electricity rates, outrageous delivery, regulatory and debt charges, billing mistakes, and excuses from Hydro One and the Wynne Government?
Rising costs and all these extra charges have made Ontario the most expensive jurisdiction for electricity in Canada. I have put together this fact comparison with the other provinces- clearly this government's energy policies are bankrupting us.
*Alberta was left out of the comparisons due to multiple utilities operating throughout the province on different systems*
Take a look at this chart demonstrating the all-in-cost for rural resident's monthly billing across Canada.
Here's the detailed breakdown of the rates from the chart above:
Manitoba
Basic monthly Charge, $7.57
Energy Charge: 7.672¢/kWhx1000, $76.72
$7.57 + $73.81
Total $81.38 for 1000 KwH
British Columbia
Basic monthly charge, 0.1835 per day ($5.50 monthly)
Energy Charge: 0.0829¢/kWhx675=$55.96, 0.1243¢/kWhx325=$40.40
$55.96+$40.40=$96.35
Rate Rider 5% Rate Rider applied to all charges before taxes and levies
5.50+96.35= 101.85 + $4.82 (rate rider)
Total $106.67 for 1000 KwH
Saskatchewan
Basic Monthly Charge $29.19
Energy Charge: 12.624¢/KwHx1000, $126.24
$29.19 + $126.24
Total $155.43 for 1000 KwH
Hydro one
Energy Charge: 18¢/kWhx200 peak $36, 13.2¢/kWhx200 mid $26.4, 8.7¢/kWhx600 low $52.20
Line loss charge +$11.19
Basic Monthly Charge + $24.07
Regulatory charge + $6.71
Delivery charge ($30.88 service charge +distribution volume charge $29.80+ transmission connection charge $4.80 +transmission network charge $6.80+ Smart Meter Charge $10.38=$82.66
36+26.4+52.2+11.19+24.07+6.71+82.66
Total $239.23 for 1000 KwH
Quebec
Basic Monthly Charge, $12.19
Energy Charge: 5.71¢/KwHx900=$51.39, 8.68¢/kWhx300=$26.04
51.39+26.04+12.19
Total $89.62 for 1000 KwH
New Brunswick
Basic Monthly Charge, $22.79
Energy Charge: 10.41¢/KwHx1000, 104.20
104.20 + 22.79
Total $126.99 for 1000 KwH
Nova Scotia
TOU billing
Basic Monthly Charge, $18.82
Energy Charge: break down 20 peak/20 mid/60 low
Peak=19.158¢/kWh Medium=14.800¢/kWh low=7.873¢/kWh
peak =38.31 medium=29.60 low=47.24
38.31+29.60+47.24+18.82=133.97
Total $133.97 for 1000 KwH
Newfoundland
Basic charge, $15.70
Energy Charge: 10.573¢/KwHx1000, $105.73
15.70+105.73
Total $121.43 for 1000 KwH
PEI
Basic Monthly Charge, $26.92
Energy Rate Charge=13.56¢/KwHx1000, $135.60
$26.92+$135.60
Total $162.52 for 1000 KwH
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Excellent points you have made, I see your side really well. What this shows me is that again, Hydro does what it wants all the time.
I dont see any Leader calling them on it. All is see is people blaming the politicians who have no control what so ever with Hydro process. I hear blame from NDP (cause all she does is whine), I hear NOTHING from PC cause they have to still figure out who is running the ship and I hear….blah, blah, blah from Wynne and how the past has hurt us…
If I was leader, I would put a stop on wages. I would privatize the areas that are least producing and I would contract out all clerical work. Fire them all and start new….shake things up.
From the top down, CEO Formosa (spelling).. who was fired for being one of the top money earners in Ontario and least productive, what a nightmare to begin.
We implemented SAP under her reign of terror and trust me when I say, the Vendors were not being paid in over a year due to the mess up of SAP. 1 year later our poor vendors and suppliers were not getting paid. It got to the point that lawyers were walking in and serving papers for payment of services and product. These poor companies were laying people off, stressing how to survive etc all because our new SAP system was not paying them. Some in the millions of dollars, but the funny part was that they were receiving Hydro Bills every month just fine.
and the Hydro staff were taking leave of absence up to a 6 – 9 months cause of the stress that what brought on…please these clerks push paper and they wanted stress leave.
My point of this is, no one from the GVT stepped in to do anything about it. No one…I was there and it sucked going to work and yet the GVT did nothing.
If I were to hear from a Political Party a real agenda on how to stop this Cash Cow..they would have my vote. Not a Trump idea where its not even thought of yet..but a real concrete agenda..thats what we need…I am hoping you have something like that..you do seem to know the Grid System well.
Chris
Unionville
I started as entry level paper pusher and made over 56K a year, union…I was shocked at this pay but I needed a job.
Do we really think its because we make too much electricity? I think its because the pays and the wages are so out of whack…
Im sure that payroll at Hydro One is probably their biggest cost..yet no one can do anything about it..cause if they do…shut down the system.
So for those of you that like to pat Harris or yell at McGuinty or Wynne…none of them had the balls to tackle the Hydro problem cause its beyond them..its bigger than them or any party.
The distribution rates are being changed, as was noted in an earlier post, to fixed monthly rates. Of course, high volume users will benefit from that change, paying less than they now pay, and low volume users (i.e. those who foolishly have tried to conserve electricity) will pay higher rates than we currently pay. I am not sure how that will aid the effort to lower energy consumption, We all remember what lower usage last winter did for our rates!!
Another concern is the rate of increase that Ontarians are facing. Several different sources online (including CBC, CHCH etc.) suggest that the increase in rates are greater in ON than anywhere else in North America – Toronto Sun (albeit perhaps not the gold standard in reporting) used a figure of 72% increase in kWh rate since 2006. I can’t comment on the accuracy of that figure, but I can comment on my own bills – in October of 2012, I was paying 22.7 cents per kWh; July 2014 was 24.7 cents per kWh; Sept 2015 it was 32 cents per kWh and recent bills is 39.7 cents per kWh (and bills before that topped 40 cents). That seems like a very large increase in 4 years, with no end in sight. Those on a fixed income are essentially stuck, as there is little we can do to minimize the effect of these increases – using less power or changing when you use it will not help your bottom line in any appreciable way.
What other Province has someone like Wynne who is mismanaging our primary staple for every day life? How Greedy! You should be ashamed that the 1.3m or 42% of ON population are unable to afford their hydro and are on the verge of loosing their homes, because YOU, Wynne, and those that work with you. Commercial and Industrial companies are leaving Canada and ON because of the extortion of hydro rates. They go to Mexico, China, India, etc. Hydro One doesn’t generate electricity? Does not set prices? Then who does? Obviously Hydro One is not transparent in billing and telling ON what’s really going on. Remove the on-peak, mid-peak, charges. Only have off-peak @ 8.7 cents. Remove delivery charges. Remove regulatory charges. Debt retirement charge exemption saved $9.60. What a joke! We have enough resources i.e. solar farms, wind, water, etc. to provide our Province with our own hydro. Why are we paying the U.S. to take our extra hydro? Our sister-province QC rates are what we should be paying. We are a hop-skip-jump from QC, yet we do not cooperate with our own Canadian Province to provide hardworking Ontario’ans a hydro bill that they can afford to pay?
It’s a sad state of affairs when a working family has to decide what to pay for first: Hydro OR nutritious food, gasoline for a vehicle to go to work, school trips/supplies, fix a home, purchase medications, pay mortgage, pay land taxes, etc.
1st: lower electricity rate. Remove 3 tier billing. (if I start my washing machine at 6:30 am and it finishes at 7:15 am, am I paying both rates?)
2nd: be transparent. Where is hydro generating electricity? Who sets the prices?
3rd: remove all extra charges
4th: families immigrating or refugees benefit the most from so-called “savings”. Their families are very large compared.
5th: STOP spending money on useless brochures, pamphlets, and junk-mail. Especially coupon savings. Give coupons to retailers so consumers can make the purchase and receive the discount directly at point of purchase.
6th: Who is paying for this survey? Is it the 1.3 million Ontario’ans X $90 a survey? (which is average cost of a survey by ipsos research, and the research company that Wynne utilizes)
Make hydro affordable – just like the other Provinces in Canada,so we can have a quality, balanced life. We as Canadian DESERVE that.
Down side the xxxxxx will then start raising the carbon tax .
As a retire leaving the providence is also an option .
3rd world countries are way ahead of Ontario . Even the corruption exist in the 3rd world but not as bad as this Ontario Government !!