Hydro bill

[yellow dog]

Get use to it nothing we can do.

[Fox]

Get use to it nothing we can do.

Yep, I thought I could reduce my usage and reduce my bill, nope, no matter what I do the charge on delivery and fees/taxes is what gets us in a rural home. If I were to not use hydro at all I would still have a $75 bill just to be connected. The only way would be to go off the grid and at the moment this is just too expensive for how homes are built right now.

[MarkB]

I noticed my bill was probably around $100 higher than what I expected it to be. I didn't have a chance to dig into it, but I'm guessing the rate has gone up.

I should have installed solar panels when it was lucratively subsidized.

[B Wilson]

A few things changed recently, they finally took away the debt retirement charge. But then they also took away the 10% clean energy benefit. They also messed around with changing people's billing rates based on low / medium / high density. Some people who were in medium were moved to low density which has higher basic rates before consumption is calculated.

their encouraging reducing consumption but still have the same financial liabilities to employees payroll and benefits, not to mention paying other utilities in the US to take the excess power generated in Ontario. There are the same number of poles if not more to maintain or replace as they deteriorate.

The less we use the more it is going to cost in the future.

does it not seem strange that we are being encouraged to reduce hydro consumption yet the governments are pushing for electric cars.

I can hardly believe that Tesla was able to get more than 275000 people to give $1000 down payments on electric cars that will not be made for another year.

remember the good old days when Ontario Hydro was pushing everyone to install electric baseboard heaters for clean reliable heat...

[fratri]

Lets not forget all those Mutual Funds Managers that are holding hydro stocks for their customers... Hydro needs to make money and the only way they do that is by selling hydro. The less people using it, the more it will cost. Mutual fund managers rely on the return regardless of what the government says....

Too bad about your hydro bill going up so much, it probably won't get any better as I thought I heard they sold another 15% of hydro today?

[cuulguy]

Get use to it nothing we can do.

If everybody or majority in Ontario will stop paying, demanding adjustments and fair prices, the government will have nothing to do, but satisfy the demands. But according to comments I see that everybody decides to pay and shut up. It is another 10 or 20 cups of coffee....

[jaycee]

Hydro bills will definitely go up, as the investors will want a good/high rate on their investment dollars, so how will they get it ? by raising hydro rates.
We will all be bending over while they stick it to us.

[fratri]

Hydro bills will definitely go up, as the investors will want a good/high rate on their investment dollars, so how will they get it ? by raising hydro rates.
We will all be bending over while they stick it to us.

Sounds a lot like the 407....a license to print money

[Species8472]

Hydro bills will definitely go up, as the investors will want a good/high rate on their investment dollars, so how will they get it ? by raising hydro rates.
We will all be bending over while they stick it to us.

Generally I'm a capitalist pig but where essential services like electricity, transportation, water/sewage, healthcare are concerned I have a hard time believing these services should be in the hands of the private sector. I also know that many publicly run utilities are management heavy and cost more than they should when left in government hands. It's a complicated problem that has been greatly magnified by decades of mismanagement by Ontario Hydro and than further compounded by the green energy swindling that is going on. At this stage we are fooked for the foreseeable future no matter who holds the reins.

[B Wilson]

If everybody or majority in Ontario will stop paying, demanding adjustments and fair prices, the government will have nothing to do, but satisfy the demands. But according to comments I see that everybody decides to pay and shut up. It is another 10 or 20 cups of coffee....

Or we know what happens when you don't pay you bill. My neighbor tried that, got disconnected and had to pay in full to get reconnected as well as twice the amount of his highest bill that year as a security deposit.

so go ahead and stop paying your bill if you want...but I am going to keep paying for the hydro that I use.