{"id":6967,"date":"2016-05-02T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:15:13","slug":"ontario-canada-electricity-rates-highest-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/ontario-canada-electricity-rates-highest-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Canada Electricity rates, highest in North America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/power.jpg\" alt=\"power\"  height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/power.jpg 331w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/power-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/power-256x299.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><br \/>\nA news story today from<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.640toronto.com\/syn\/104\/88985\/hydro-rates-climbing-ont<br \/>\n***<br \/>\nIt\u2019s now going to be just a little bit pricier to do your laundry or run the dishwasher in the middle of the day.<br \/>\nThe Ontario Energy Board says new rate hikes came into effect on Sunday, bringing the cost of using power during peak times up to 18 cents a kilowatt hour. The peak period hydro rate is in effect from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays<br \/>\nThe mid-peak hydro rate, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., on weekdays, is increasing nearly half a cent to 13.2 cents per kilowatt hour.<br \/>\nThe off-peak rate, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., is increasing less than half a cent to 8.7 cents per kilowatt hour.<br \/>\nThe changes are expected to add a little more than $3 a month to the average bill.<br \/>\n***<br \/>\nAnd the real kicker is that this in only half of the total cost.  Here in Ontario, the 18 cents\/kwh is just for the actual power to be generated, we also get charged for delivery.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, our last electricity bill:<br \/>\nElectricity:  On-Peak: 188 kWh @ 17.5000 \u00a2 $33<br \/>\nElectricity:  Mid-Peak: 148 kWh @ 12.8000 \u00a2 $19<br \/>\nElectricity:  Off-Peak: 1,179 kWh @ 8.3000 \u00a2 $98<br \/>\nDelivery $107<br \/>\nRegulatory Charges  $10<br \/>\nDebt Retirement Charge++  $0.00<br \/>\nHST (87086-5821-RT0001)  $35<br \/>\nTotal of your electricity charges $302<\/p>\n<p>taking just the power costs $33+19+98=$150.<br \/>\nSo in reality the actual power cost does work out to 49.7% of the total cost.<br \/>\nOne source of prices in North America is here: https:\/\/issuu.com\/hydroquebec\/docs\/comp_2015_en<br \/>\nThis shows that Nova Scotia and PEI appear to have higher prices than we do.<br \/>\nSan Francisco, Boston and New York are all about double our prices.<br \/>\nMontreal is the lowest listed, about 1\/2 of ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A news story today from http:\/\/www.640toronto.com\/syn\/104\/88985\/hydro-rates-climbing-ont *** It\u2019s now going to be just a little bit pricier to do your laundry or run the dishwasher in the middle of the day. The Ontario Energy Board says new rate hikes came into effect on Sunday, bringing the cost of using power during peak times up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}