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The average Ontario household’s electricity bill will reach nearly $200 a month before levelling off in 2030, the provincial government predicted as it released its latest long-term energy plan Thursday morning.
This is the first overhaul to the province’s electricity forecast in four years, which means it’s the first one since the Liberal government got seriously spooked by Ontarians’ fury over constant hydro price hikes.
The increase is less than the government promised in 2013, when the average bill was supposed to hit $200 a few years earlier in 2027, but still very noticeable.
The average household pays $127 a month now, so we can expect an average price hike of about five per cent a year every year for the next decade-and-a-half, according to the plan. It’ll be lower at first, thanks to all the money the government is borrowing to pay electricity bills over the next few years, then we’ll see sharper price increases starting in 2022.
Millions of electric cars will take up the power we don’t use in our houses and apartments, along with heavy-duty electric transit systems like Ottawa’s light-rail lines.
The government says we’re getting a cleaner, more reliable power system for our money: no power generated by burning coal, no brownout threats in big cities, more ability for people to generate their own electricity at home with things like solar panels.
More to come.
dreevely@postmedia.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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This is the first overhaul to the province’s electricity forecast in four years, which means it’s the first one since the Liberal government got seriously spooked by Ontarians’ fury over constant hydro price hikes.
The increase is less than the government promised in 2013, when the average bill was supposed to hit $200 a few years earlier in 2027, but still very noticeable.
The average household pays $127 a month now, so we can expect an average price hike of about five per cent a year every year for the next decade-and-a-half, according to the plan. It’ll be lower at first, thanks to all the money the government is borrowing to pay electricity bills over the next few years, then we’ll see sharper price increases starting in 2022.
Millions of electric cars will take up the power we don’t use in our houses and apartments, along with heavy-duty electric transit systems like Ottawa’s light-rail lines.
The government says we’re getting a cleaner, more reliable power system for our money: no power generated by burning coal, no brownout threats in big cities, more ability for people to generate their own electricity at home with things like solar panels.
More to come.
dreevely@postmedia.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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