NOTL Hydro History

April 27, 2022

Many new residents to Niagara-on-the-Lake are surprised that there is an electric utility solely focused on the Town.  While a…

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Ontario’s Energy Disadvantage

April 21, 2022

Inexpensive electricity was a competitive advantage Ontario enjoyed for a long time.  It started with the harnessing of the considerable…

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Conservation

April 13, 2022

NOTL Hydro was very critical of the Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) program that was previously run by the Government…

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Local Generation and Net Metering

April 6, 2022

Most of NOTL Hydro’s power comes from the transmission grid.  This grid connects all the large power generation such as…

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Line Losses

March 30, 2022

At the bottom of every NOTL Hydro bill is a rectangular section showing the meter reading data including the dates,…

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NOTL Hydro Debt

March 22, 2022

NOTL Hydro funds its capital work through rates, debt and retained earnings.  Strategically, the Board of NOTL Energy likes to…

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Electric Vehicles and Electricity Demand

March 15, 2022

The spread of new technologies often follows a similar pattern.  Their uptake is slow at first as consumers assimilate the…

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Advocacy Efforts

March 9, 2022

NOTL Hydro engages in advocacy efforts in which we position ourselves as representing our ratepayers and petition the government on…

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Returns to the Town

March 2, 2022

NOTL Hydro provides a return to the Town of NOTL in a variety of ways.  Some of these are obvious;…

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Subsidized Electricity

February 23, 2022

Electricity rates are not in the news to the extent they were a few years ago. To see why, consider…

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