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Restructuring and Competition
Media Release: Union Gas Gobbles Up Ontario Storage Competitors
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007For Immediate Release November 29, 2007 Recent announcements by Texas-based multinational corporation, Spectra Energy Inc., owner of Union Gas Limited, reveal that it intends to gobble up what little competition it currently faces from Ontario storage providers. The gas pools of Midway Petroleum Company located in Sarnia, Ontario as well as a controlling interest in storage gas pools to be ...
New Increased Ontario Electricity Rates - A Symptom not a Solution
Wednesday, Apr 12, 2006The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) today released the results of the regulatory review of the rates to be charged by 60 of Ontario’s 90+ electricity local distribution utilities for the delivery portion of the bill, as well as the rates associated with charges for commodity (Regulated Price Plan (RPP)) that will be passed on in the customer electricity bill. The net effect of the rulings will be ...
Ontario Electricity Restructuring
Monday, Nov 11, 2002Ontario Electricity Restructuring- A Funny Thing happened On the Way to Utopia. For the past eight years, PIAC has been involved as a participant and critic of the process of electricity restructuring in Ontario. Our participation included representation of a coalition of small volume residential consumers, the Vulnerable Energy Consumers Coalition (VECC) in proceedings before the Ontario ...
Standard Offer By Utilities: Making Competition Work For All
Thursday, Dec 30, 1999The introduction of competition into the utility industry is intended to afford consumers a right to choose among different suppliers of a utility product such as natural gas or electricity. What happens to those consumers for whom no choice exists, or who are satisfied with their current utility service? How will they receive utility service and the benefits of competition? This study looks ...
Utility Shopping: Are Consumers Ready?
Saturday, Oct 30, 1999While competition promises many benefits in utility markets, in practice consumers have to be knowledgeable to do well in deregulated markets. The report evaluates the level of consumer sovereignty that exists in Canadian deregulated utility markets by examining the results of a national survey on consumer knowledge and attitudes towards the long distance, natural gas, and future electricity ...
Deregulation of the Canadian Natural Gas Market
Saturday, Jan 30, 1999The Deregulation of the Canadian Natural Gas Market: A Consumer Progress Report This report examines the ongoing process of gas deregulation in Canada and evaluates the results from a consumer perspective. The report finds that while deregulation has the potential for efficiency gains and increase customer choice, the changes have brought about unanticipated results that have compromised the ...
Presentation to the Standing Committee on Resources Development
Monday, Nov 30, 1998Presentation to the Standing Committee on Resources Developmenton Bill 35 – Energy Competition Act, 1998 Speaking Notes of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre(PIAC) Introduction First of all, I would like to extend our thanks to the Committee for giving us an opportunity to address the Committee on our concerns associated with Bill 35 – the Energy Competition Act. The Public ...