2020-Apr-16
Success on Keeping the Seasonal Hydro Rate Class
In summer 2019, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) directed Hydro One to eliminate the seasonal rate class affecting secondary and seasonal use properties. GBA has been working with the Federation of Ontario Cottagers’ Associations (FOCA) pressing the OEB to retain the seasonal hydro rate class to avoid a substantive cost increase for the majority of GBA hydro customers. A breakthrough was achieved when Hydro One also recommended retention, and now the OEB has finally decided to keep the seasonal rate class in place until another planned change, fixed distribution rates, comes into effect. Read more here.
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