Wynneing!

By increased costs from OPG's hydro stations they mean spilling water over the dam to keep capacity open on the grid for wind and solar.

By increased costs from OPG's hydro stations they mean spilling water over the dam to keep capacity open on the grid for wind and solar.

And the people of Ontario? Not a whimper!

I'm a really smart Albertan. I don't pay 17.5 cents. My bill says I pay 6 cents.

It says right on my bill 648 kwh @ .06 = $ 38.88 but my bill was for $ 109.23 before GST.

$ 109.23 / 648 = $ 16.86. Maybe I'm not all that smart after all.

Cutting middle class down to the EUnuch size, the death of a thousand cuts.

that would be 16.86 cents

Because of baseload power generation cost increases???? Give me a break :-( :-(
No wonder commies run Ontario.
Fact is...GREEN POWER needs subsidies....
They have to justify somehow...
If Hydro, nuclear, and gas were left alone...without paying for GREEN extortion...
Ontario would have power costs similar to rest of the North American world.
But then.......that is not mantra of the elite and PC crowd.
Pay it then folks....they got elected, no one else to blame.

you voted for it....to quote gunnery sargent from fullmetal jacket this is for kathleen wynne..."they're paying for it ...you eat it!"

Well if Ontario had not made that secret backroom last minute illegal PPA contract clause with Enron and instead listened to Ralph who wanted to keep everything in public hands ..... Oh wait

Hydro, nuclear, coal and gas fired power plants are cheap, efficient and proven technologies that satisfy base load and produce electricity under 10 cents a kwh. Wind and solar are closer to 30 and then there's the whole problem of being intermittent and unable to provide and meet base load demand. This is reality. something that is completely lost on progressives who can't understand that even if we got rid of hydrocarbons tomorrow, there would be nothing to replace it. 'alternative' energy would result in rolling brownouts, blackouts and general misery.

That increase will be on top of the tax on CO2 coming in January.

Ontario, you voted to impoverish yourselves.

Yeah, it's hard for me to feel sorry for Ontarions (or Albertans!) when they basically voted the rascals in.

You want your provinces back? Time for a political revolution, my babies. It's starting to happen all across the Western world — why should you be any different?

In a democracy people get the government they deserve.
Ontario did this to themselves -- schadenfreude

Back to doing laundry and ironing after 7 pm. Ridiculous as Ontario has a surplus of electricity and doesn't need this on peak off peak nonesense.

Old news from 2015? I already pay a peak rate of over 18 cents a kilowatt hour.

In Ontario it is the public sector unions that got Mr. Wynne elected ...
and we all know that those unions are run by marxists ...

Not saying it won't happen again this year, but this is a story from Oct 15 2015.

Just moved to Ontario last month. Eyeballs popped out of my head when I saw the electricity rates. But...

So fare, I have lived and worked in six provinces in this country and one thing I've learned: It doesn't really matter. You'll get screwed one way or the other. If it's a high tax / utility fee area, then the cost of food and housing will be low (and the reverse). If the province charges lower taxes, you'll see more "service fees" (think Alberta and their health-care bills), higher government controlled insurance rates, etc.

There really isn't a way to win. They just screw you most based on what your local culture says you'll be willing to accept. Ontario's WASP culture history doesn't like income tax. But they believe in sinners paying to be green...so environment scams it is. Québec smokes more...so the cigarette taxes are low. But they'll get you on the income tax because it is a mortal sin to make a profit. And so on...

I am informed that here in Ontariowe, if you have natural gas it is cheaper to shut off the power to the house during peak hours and run a gas fired generator to keep all the little things going while you're at work.

Pretty soon, you're going to see lots of working people killing the power during the day and doing everything after 6pm. The whole province will go nocturnal.

Personally I plan to look into a retail situation selling paraffin lamps. Sure to be a winner in a few more years.

the cost is the result of support for wind and solar and nothing else. scrap every damn one of the windmills and panels and build power plants that work. get rid of all liberal socialist politicians and bureaucrats and we will survive.

During the RIO Olympics Opening ceremony CBC Peter Mansbridge was slobbering & declaring that Climate Change was Real (everyone else was talking about the Canadian Athletes) The theme of RIO was Climate Change… He then said that “RIO was all about getting more for less”.... That of course is the absolute opposite of the AGW agenda..

If the CBC was honest they would look at Ontario’s green agenda through the same Lens and see that “Getting Less from more” is the real mantra…. and that is not scientifically sustainable

My bill for June 24-July 26 is $267.73.
I'm 88 and live alone. Electricity 47.43; 25.02; 64.16; DELIVERY 92.38
Go figure.

Because I live alone my income is a couple thousand too much for me to qualify for assistance. Second "go figure".