Note that a part of the OPA’s OEB-issued license in force today is a legal requirement that the OPA issue an updated power plan for the province every three years. The last version was issued in August 29th 2007. The OPA has now been in breach of its license for a few days. It will be interesting to see whether the OEB has the spine to enforce its license.

He does avoid the straight out lie (the transcript is at http://tinyurl.com/34cjunr).
For instance, in dancing around the question specific to American rates, he does make it obvious he knows Mr. Adams is right (we are at New England pricing - and we are 15% higher than the average US price).
He does revisit two election themes that, I hope, are fairly easy targets. The first is they’ve been building needed supply. While there’s a simple level that is true at (plants do age and need replacement), since 1992 only in 1998 was Ontario production not greater than 2009’s consumption level (and then it only missed by 1TWh). Similarly, much of the capacity that came online after the 2003 election was nuclear capacity planned by their predecessors. It’s pretty feeble to claim they’ve been working their tails off and sparing no expense in order to stand still.
They are contracting private gas instead of cleaning up public coal. I’m sure it is cleaner, but it is a choice, not an imperative.
Mr. Duguid claims they managed to keep prices relatively stable for the first 6 years of their mandate. The average price in the USA increased by about 1/3rd from 2003-2009. I’m fairly certain if Ontarions check their bills they’d find their increase was 50% over the same period - and that is prior to 2010’s accelerated increases.

But he does interviews and does realize a plan would be helpful.
Which is a vast improvement.

When folks think of a scam, we often think of characters like Ken Lay or Bernie Madoff, criminals that come to your door to steal from you. In the case of the FIT program, the salesman coming to your door is working on a government subsidy program that steals from the neighbours every time another FIT project goes on line. The FIT program is so ugly underneath that as folks understand it more, I would worry that your fiance might face increasing trouble. The 18% rate increase so far this year is going to start educating folks about FIT. Not all of the 18% is due to FIT, but most of the next 47% by 2015 will be due to FIT.

Tom

My fiance is working for a marketing company in Ontario, selling 20-year solar panel contracts to industrial building owners. It’s all part of the OPA’s FIT program.

He has faced some rude customers lately who are calling the FIT program a scam. Why are they saying this? And are their concerns legitimate?

Thanks,
Katie

Am I the only one who is terrified that these people don’t have a long term plan set for this massive push behind renewables? You would think something like that would almost be in place before you invest billions of taxpayers money in green energy plans, where many are based on nominal projections.

This is absolutely “criminal” for a Government body to legislate people out of their homes for the sake of making profits for a small band of investors.

Ontario is not the “Place to Be” anymore..it is an “Energy Wasteland” created by an unholy alliance of “Greed Merchants” and “misguided eco-religious zealots” disguised like Political Leaders!

It would take some really hard slugging through fields of regulatory and financial detail to answer your question, and FPL is only one utility, but the results would be interesting. The bottom line comparison — how much do you pay for the same service as a customer in some US community — is easier to understand and not subject to any kind of assumptions or disputes from the government defenders like Colin Andersen at the OPA.

Florida power prices are at the higher end of the range for US prices.

Tom