Ontario Electricity Regulation Crisis Report Part 101: Who on City Council Will Speak for Toronto Power Consumers?

On January 10, Toronto’s City Council will be holding a special meeting to discuss the ice storm and power outage with specific attention to the performance of Toronto Hydro and City emergency services and preparedness plans. The first order of business for Council ought to be commissioning an independent expert review of Toronto Hydro’s incompetent …

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Ontario Electricity Regulation Crisis Report Part 100: Inside Toronto’s Cold, Black Christmas

On December 22, 2013, as freezing rain stopped falling, Toronto Hydro’s CEO Anthony Haines promised hundreds of thousands of people blacked out across the city that everyone would have their power restored within 72 hours. He had the most advanced and costly urban Smart Grid system in Canada at his fingertips. The weather over the …

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Lights On Toronto Rally

Early this morning, Toronto Hydro was reporting 54,700 customers without power. By mid afternoon the number of customers had only come down to 54,000. When I originally proposed a Lights On Toronto event to express appreciation to those reconnecting our city, I mistakenly thought it would be a party to celebrate all customers back on-line. …

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