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While Canadians endured hardships during recent storms, customers in UK got...
(January 7, 2014) To help its most vulnerable customers cope, one UK power company provided them with Christmas dinners as well as hotel accommodation, all at shareholder expense. This article, by...
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Making sure the lights stay on in Toronto
(January 16, 2014) Private electricity companies in other parts of the world have a much better track record than Toronto Hydro when it comes to handling severe weather. A Toronto Star investigation...
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Governments rip up renewable contracts
(March 19, 2014) Companies ‘do not have a right [to expect the compensation] not to be changed’. By Brady Yauch This article first appeared in the Financial Post. Governments across Europe, regretting...
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Ontario to follow Germany in renewable failure
(March 21, 2014) Germany has been experimenting with its renewable energy law for 14 years and is now highlighting its failures. Ontario, which copied that law, will likely do the same. Ontario passed...
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Energy bills go up again, regulator points finger at renewables
(April 21, 2014) Ontario’s renewable energy producers are largely to blame for the coming price hike for ratepayers. Ontario electricity consumers are once again set to be hit with a hike to their...
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Ontario offers band-aid solution to soaring electricity bills
(April 25, 2014) Ontario’s latest plan to tackle higher energy bills misses the point entirely. Ontario’s Ministry of Energy is doing everything it can to try and tame soaring energy costs – except, of...
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1 percenters will take a hit under new power rates
(June 24, 2014) The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has tabled a proposal to have all electricity users pay their fair share for the cost of delivering power to their home. The Ontario Energy Board (OEB)...
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Why it’s time for a flat distribution fee in Ontario
(August 6, 2014) The Ontario Energy Board’s move towards a flat distribution is the right one. There has been much gnashing of teeth and pounding of tables in response to the Ontario Energy Board’s...
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Achtung, Ontario! Renewables are a money pit
(August 12, 2014) Germany’s $412-billion lesson for Ontario. This article, by Brady Yauch, was originally published in the Financial Post. Germany – the country on which Ontario modelled its approach...
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Green energy and Ontario’s surging cost of power
(August 29, 2014) Hydro bills have increased dramatically since the provincial government introduced its Green Energy Act. Ontario’s electricity prices have been soaring ever since the province’s 2009...
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OEB stops $15 million cash grab by OPA
(November 14, 2014) The Ontario Energy Board just saved $15 million for fee payers. The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) was hoping it could run off with $15 million of funds it accumulated through...
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90% of Ontario’s wind subsidies benefit a select few multinationals: study
(November 25, 2014) Subsidies given to Ontario’s wind farm owners largely benefit a select few multinational corporations, a new Energy Probe study shows. Ontario wind farm owners are benefiting from...
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Ontario’s Auditor General lays into Ministry of Energy
(December 12, 2014) A new report from Ontario’s Auditor General sharply criticizes a number of policies in the province’s electricity sector. Ontario’s Auditor General (AG) released a scathing report...
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“Don’t subsidize us,” big business asks Ontario Energy Board
(January 9, 2015) Ontario’s biggest users of natural gas told the Ontario Energy Board they don’t need subsidies to take conservation seriously. Ontario’s largest businesses told the Ontario Energy...
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Ontario’s big wind bonanza: Over 90% of subsidies funneled to just 11 companies
(February 4, 2015) Yes, everyone would need to pay a little more for renewable power, the public was told, but the benefits would be widely shared, for the ultimate benefit of all. But then something...
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Renewable energy not walking the talk on competitiveness
(February 23, 2015) When subsidies are cut, renewable energy investment largely disappears. “Solar and Wind Energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels,” claimed a recent article from the New...
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Customer rights get powered up in privatized electricity systems
(March 13, 2015) Customers with private electricity distributors are better protected from blackouts and other disruptions. Ratepayers across Ontario are wondering whether they’ll be better off if...
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10 things you need to know from Hydro One’s rate application
(March 17, 2015) Energy Probe breaks down 10 important parts of the OEB’s decision on Hydro One’s distribution rate application. The Ontario Energy Board has released its decision on Hydro One’s...
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Higher hydro bills to pay for high hydro bills
(March 27, 2015) Ontario’s Ministry of Energy is hiking hydro bills on all ratepayers in an effort to stop already high hydro bills. Make sense? The Ontario government is hiking hydro rates in an...
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Much needed reforms could focus on Hydro One employees’ pensions
(April 24, 2015) Hydro One’s distribution arm ranks among the worst in North America. This article first appeared in the Financial Post. The employee unions at Hydro One – the Ontario-government-owned...
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