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The legislation capped retail prices at 4.3 cents per kWh and Ontario Power Generation (the successor of Ontario Hydro's electricity generation division) was to provide customers with a rebate for 100% of all electricity charges above that mark, retroactive to the market opening and continuing until 1 May 2006. Transmission and distribution ...
The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) was an independent, non-profit corporation established through the Electricity Restructuring Act, 2004 (Bill 100). Licensed by the Ontario Energy Board , it reported to the Ontario legislature through the Ministry of Energy .
Hydro One Limited is an electricity transmission and distribution utility serving the Canadian province of Ontario.Hydro One traces its history to the early 20th century and the establishment of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (renamed "Ontario Hydro" in 1974).
Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) is a Crown corporation [2] [3] and "government business enterprise" [4] that is responsible for approximately half of the electricity generation in the province of Ontario, Canada. [5] It is wholly owned by the government of Ontario. [6] Sources of electricity include nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, gas and ...
Ontario’s electricity distribution consists of multiple local distribution companies (LDCs). Hydro One , a publicly-traded company owned in part by the provincial government, is the largest LDC in the province and services approximately 26 percent of all electricity customers in Ontario.
In April 2012, the Energy Minister of Ontario Chris Bentley introduced legislation in provincial Parliament to merge the Ontario Power Authority and IESO. [1] The merger was expected to take place in late 2012. After the Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty resigned in the fall of 2012, the merger was postponed.
The Ontario Energy Board is the provincial regulator of natural gas [1] and electricity utilities in Ontario, Canada. [2] This includes setting rates, and licensing all participants in the electricity sector including the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), generators, transmitters, distributors, wholesalers and electricity retailers, as well as natural gas marketers who sell to ...
The facility is owned by St Clair Power LP, a joint venture between Invenergy and the hedge fund Stark Investments, and operated by Invenergy Services Canada. [ 1 ] The plant was built in response to the Government of Ontario 's 2004 initiative to produce lower-emission electricity, and has a 20-year contract from the Ontario Power Authority to ...