Comments on: Hydro One Seeks Permission to Raise Distribution Rates 24.3% Over Two Years Cites Green Energy Act as Reason

By: Flynn

Flynn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:10:42 +0000

What I cannot understand is that with the significant drops in energy prices over the past year, how does Ontario Hydro justify these ridiculous increases? The Ontario Government is just letting them pillage the populace instead of protecting them from the whims of a utility that is obviously abusing their monopolistic position in the energy market!

By: sal

sal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:59:04 +0000

delivery charge for electricity is a huge racket. charges should be a small fixed amount, and not increase with the electricity delivered. as if a truck is delivering a load of electricity to my house daily. the lines and transformer do not suffer extra wear and tear. someone surely has dreamed up this ripoff

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:35:11 +0000

Lynn,
Your daughter absolutely has to buy something like the TED 5000. Electrical usage monitor. They are under $300 canadian delivered, and she will figure out where it is all going. I have also read that some of the new meters being installed are not working and are massively overcharging. If her meter is working the TED 5000 will help her save. If the meter is not working she can use the data to convince hydro to swap to a new meter, and test the old one ad get a refund. Ok well a refund is a little far fetched!

By: green energy

green energy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:15:29 +0000

I think this is a fair question from them.I can see nothing wrong in demanding more.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:34:51 +0000

My daughter lives in Rockwood and her hydro bills are out of sight. It averages $500 per month and she doesn’t even have central air conditioning. This is crazy. When she calls to talk someone they just give her some bull about the bills being estimates and if she overpays it will be adjusted when they read the meter. They refuse to address the fact that this kind of usage is abnormal and offer no solution.

By: John Laforet’s Blog » Blog Archive » Hydro One Green Energy Act Cash Grab In For a Bumpy Ride

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:32:33 +0000

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:07:07 +0000

Why do we need to pay more for Hydro? Oh right the executives need to find a way to keep their lavish lifestyles. Remember using the company helicopter to take the CEO’s family to the cottage costs money and has to come from somewhere.

We need to say to Dalton enough. Ernie Eves once said that Dalton and the Liberals cannot keep their dirty little hands out of our pockets. He was bang on!

By: ruffie

ruffie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:48:41 +0000

Don’t blame Hydro One for this-put the blame where it belongs- on Mr McGuinty’s lap-the liberals of the day also created the Hydro Debt. Mcguinty’s government is run by self promoteing parasitic so called green NGO’s who haven’t a clue about what’s needed to build and run a reliable , efficient clean power grid . If you think our bills are high now just wait a couple of years -based on what we know now the aversge bill in Ontario will be up at least $50.00. plus the Smart Meters raise -do the math.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:05:30 +0000

It’s about time Hydro One was checked a little. They are a utility company and should be there to provide people of Ontario with reasonably priced power,not some arrogant giant that continiues to destroy Ontario. What other commodity costs more to deliver than it’s worth.

By: enviralmental

enviralmental — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:48:36 +0000

John can you put up a link so others can access this information or media release?