Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (“Toronto Hydro”) is reminding its Time-of-Use customers that electricity prices on certain days during the holidays are OFF-PEAK – the lowest electricity price – all day. The following dates are OFF-PEAK: Saturday, December 25 Sunday, December 26 Monday, December 27 Tuesday, December 28 Saturday, January 1 Sunday, January 2 Monday, January [...]

On April 1, 2009 changes were made to the OHIP eligibility rules under Regulation 552 of the Health Insurance Act. As a result of these changes, individuals volunteering for charitable organizations outside of Canada may now be eligible for continuous OHlP coverage during their absence from Ontario. Also included in the changes are updates concerning [...]

Votre carte Sante vous donne acces au système de sante de l’Ontario. Prenez-en bien soin. Quelles obligations m’incombent en tant que titulaire d’une carte Sante de l’Ontario? Pour être admissible a 1′ Assurance-sante de l’Ontario, vous devez remplir toutes les conditions suivantes: être de citoyenneté canadienne ou avoir en matière d’ immigration le statut &once [...]

Your Ontario health card is your key to the Ontario health care system. Take good care of it. What are my responsibilities as an Ontario health card holder? Your eligibility for the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) requires that: you are a Canadian citizen or have an immigration status as set out in Ontario’s Health [...]

Time of Use (TOU): Time of Use (TOU) is a new electricity system that requires Smart Meters to measure the total amount of electricity used each hour. Time of Use (TOU) pricing is regulated by the government, unlike fixed-rate electricity are sold by deregulated energy retailers or alternative gas and electricity suppliers. Smart Meters record [...]

Here is the complete list of all regulated and deregulated natural gas & electricity providers operating in Maryland. Updated on October 2010. Natural Gas Local Natural Gas Supplier Company Baltimore Gas and Electricity (BGE) Licensed Natural Gas Supplier in Baltimore Gas and Electricity (BGE)’s Service Territory Alternative Natural Gas Supplier / Retailer / Energy Brokers [...]

Here is the complete list of all regulated/deregulated natural gas & electricity providers in New York State. Updated on October 2010. Source: New York State Public Service Commission Get the current natural gas and electricity prices for New Jersey residential customers here.

Your home furnace look like it is still in good shape, but a technician comes over and said you have a cracked heat exchange. That can release deadly carbon monoxide into your home and replacing your furnace is required. However, the company or the technician has the incentive for the diagnosis and the replacement of [...]

The new rules will help ensure that Ontarians receive accurate information from all energy retailers before they sign contracts. In the coming months the Ontario Energy Board will help educate Ontarians about these new rules that will require energy retailers to: Disclose how the contract price they are offering compares to the price offered by [...]

According to The Sun at thesun.co.uk, their top 10 worst traffic cities are: 1. Mumbai 2. Johannesburg 3. Tokyo 4. Paris 5. Rome 6. Toronto – You can get the latest traffic conditions in Toronto here. 7. Reykjavik 8. Bangkok – I been to Thailand a few times and I think this should be above [...]

On June 2008, Summit Energy was fined $495,000 by Ontario Energy Board for what OEB call “unfair practices” in the sale of fixed rate natural gas and electricity prices. Now fast forward three months, after 6 days of hearings over this summer of 2010, 23 people gave evidence of Summitt Energy’s door-to-door deception. Five of [...]

On September 2010, Direct Energy announced that the company will be offering electricity supply services to residential customers in the Duquesne Light territory of southwest Pennsylvania. The company already service electricity in the Pike County, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania and PPL service territories with its headquarter in Pittsburgh with more than 300 employees “For close [...]

Faye Lyons, a spokesperson for the Canadian Automobile Association, told 680News about a technology that could be a win-win situation for everyone, if a new traffic light system is in place around Toronto. A new study from US and Europe suggested that a new traffic system that responds to traffic instead of controlling it would [...]

No energy sales – No natural gas sales – No electricity sales – No hot water tanks/furnace sales The battle for your water heater tank dollars is still on, at your front door, in your home, on the radio, newspaper and now the battle is on social media. A considerable number of stories about consumers [...]

The Ontario NDP released a report Thursday, September 23, 2010, from the Ontario Energy Board showing that Ontario taxpayers will be charged an additional $60 on their hydro bills each year, total of $240 million dollars per year simply to boost the profits of the province’s electricity distributors. An email dated on February 24, 2010; [...]