HCH Electricity Rate Information
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Current OEB approved Rate Order and Rate Applications

Regulated Price Plan (RPP)

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is responsible for regulating electricity prices for low-volume consumers - those who use fewer than 250,000 kWh a year. The OEB adjusts these rates twice a year, to better reflect the true cost of electricity. More information about the regulated price plan is available at http://www.oeb.gov.on.ca/.

Consumers who purchase electricity from Haldimand County Hydro are charged the following rates for electricity consumption. These rates are set by the Ontario Energy Board as part of the Regulated Price Plan. If you purchase electricity from an electricity retailer, the prices you pay will be different and will be stated in the contract you signed.

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Time Of Use (TOU) Pricing

The Ontario Energy Board has set out "time of use" (TOU) RPP prices for those few utilities that have both systems and meters capable of tracking and billing based on hourly electricity use and have implemented TOU pricing for consumers who purchase their electricity from a utility.  TOU prices are structured in a way that costs to the average consumer more or less equal the same amount as RPP tiered pricing.  Most consumers in Ontario who have a smart meter are not yet charged TOU prices.  All utilities are to notify the consumer at least one month before they are placed on TOU prices.


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Application

The application of these rates and charges shall be in accordance with the License of the Distributor and any Codes, Guidelines or Orders of the Board, and amendments thereto as approved by the Board, which may be applicable to the administration of this schedule.

No rates and charges for the distribution of electricity and charges to meet the costs of any work or service done or furnished for the purpose of the distribution of electricity shall be made except as permitted by this schedule, unless required by the Distributor’s License or a Code, Guideline or Order of the Board, and amendments thereto as approved by the Board, or as specified herein.

This schedule does not contain any rates and charges relating to the electricity commodity (e.g. the Regulated Price Plan).

Effective Dates

DISTRIBUTION RATES - May 1, 2007 for all consumption or deemed consumption services used on or after that date.

SPECIFIC SERVICE CHARGES - May 1, 2007 for all charges incurred by customers on or after that date.

LOSS FACTOR ADJUSTMENT – May 1, 2007 unless the distributor is not capable of prorating changed loss factors jointly with distribution rates. In that case, the revised loss factors will be implemented upon the first subsequent billing for each billing cycle.

Service Classification

Urban Density

Urban Density is an area containing 100 or more customers with a line density of at least 15 customers per kilometer.

Suburban Density

Suburban Density is an area that is not Urban Density.

Residential

This classification applies to a customer’s main place of abode and may include additional buildings served through the same meter, provided they are not rental income units. Residential includes Urban, Suburban and Farm customer’s premises which can be occupied on a year-round and seasonal basis. Farm applies to properties actively engaged in agricultural production as defined by Statistics Canada. These premises must be supplied from a single phase primary line. The farm definition does not include tree, sod, or pet farms. Services to year-round pumping stations or other ancillary services remote from the main farm shall be classed as farm.

General Service

General Service does include farms supplied from poly-phase primary lines. General Service includes commercial, industrial, educational, administrative, auxiliary and government services. It also includes combination services where a variety of uses are made of the service by the owner of one property.

General Service Less Than 50 kW

This classification applies to a non residential account whose average monthly maximum demand is less than, or is forecast to be less than, 50 kW.

General Service 50 to 4,999 kW

This classification applies to a non residential account whose average monthly maximum demand used for billing purposes is equal to or greater than, or is forecast to be equal to or greater than, 50 kW but less than 5,000 kW. Note that for the application of the Retail Transmission Rate – Network Service Rate and the Retail Transmission Rate – Line and Transformation Connection Service Rate the following sub-classifications apply:

General Service 50 to 1,000 kW non-interval metered

General Service 50 to 1,000 kW interval metered

General Service greater than 1,000 to 5,000 kW interval metered

Unmetered Scattered Load

This classification applies to an account taking electricity at 750 volts or less whose average monthly maximum demand is less than, or is forecast to be less than, 50 kW and the consumption is unmetered. Such connections include cable TV power packs, bus shelters, telephone booths, traffic lights, railway crossings, etc. The level of the consumption will be agreed to by the distributor and the customer, based on detailed manufacturer information/documentation with regard to electrical consumption of the unmetered load or periodic monitoring of actual consumption.

Sentinel Lighting

This classification refers to an account that is an unmetered lighting load supplied to a sentinel light. (Metered sentinel lighting is captured under the consumption of the principal service.) The consumption for these customers is assumed to have the same hourly consumption load profile as for Street Lighting.

Street Lighting

This classification applies to an account for roadway lighting with a Municipality, Regional Municipality, Ministry of Transportation and private roadway lighting, controlled by photo cells. The consumption for these customers will be based on the calculated connected load times the required lighting times established in the approved OEB street lighting load shape template.

Embedded Distributor

This classification applies to Norfolk Power, an electricity distributor licensed by the Board, that is provided electricity by means of Haldimand County Hydro’s facilities.