Many new residents to Niagara-on-the-Lake are surprised that there is an electric utility solely focused on the Town. While a…
Read More >NOTL Hydro History
Ontario’s Energy Disadvantage
Inexpensive electricity was a competitive advantage Ontario enjoyed for a long time. It started with the harnessing of the considerable…
Read More >Conservation
NOTL Hydro was very critical of the Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) program that was previously run by the Government…
Read More >Local Generation and Net Metering
Most of NOTL Hydro’s power comes from the transmission grid. This grid connects all the large power generation such as…
Read More >Line Losses
At the bottom of every NOTL Hydro bill is a rectangular section showing the meter reading data including the dates,…
Read More >NOTL Hydro Debt
NOTL Hydro funds its capital work through rates, debt and retained earnings. Strategically, the Board of NOTL Energy likes to…
Read More >Electric Vehicles and Electricity Demand
The spread of new technologies often follows a similar pattern. Their uptake is slow at first as consumers assimilate the…
Read More >Advocacy Efforts
NOTL Hydro engages in advocacy efforts in which we position ourselves as representing our ratepayers and petition the government on…
Read More >Returns to the Town
NOTL Hydro provides a return to the Town of NOTL in a variety of ways. Some of these are obvious;…
Read More >Subsidized Electricity
Electricity rates are not in the news to the extent they were a few years ago. To see why, consider…
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