Alberta’s regulated electricity rate has been flagged for possible elimination in a newly released list of priority tasks for the Minister of Affordability and Utilities, Nathan Neudorf.

The new optional time-of-use rate scheme for residential and small business customers will be based on four price periods and introduce a far greater discrepancy between lowest and highest-cost electricity.

Newly announced plans to test and compare approaches for dynamic electricity pricing should be seen as very early notification for Ontario's small and mid-sized commercial customers.

SaskPower will introduce a 4 per cent electricity rate increase on September 1, 2022 and another on April 1, 2023.

Cost allocation factors for enrollees in Ontario's Industrial Conservation Initiative have been based on energy use in pre-pandemic July 2019. That will be updated for a new 12-month billing period beginning July 1.

The Alberta government has promised a $150 rebate to compensate residential and commercial electricity customers for higher costs during the winter of 2022.

The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario pegs the cost of nine provincial programs at more than $118 billion over a 20-year period, with the largest share ascribed to the Ontario Electricity Rebate.

A proposed new optional time-of-use electricity rate structure in Ontario could introduce ultra-low pricing for overnight power consumption in tandem with an added premium for on-peak periods of the day.

Premier Tim Houston promises to block Nova Scotia Power's proposed system access charge that would add about 8.7 cents per kilowatt-hour to the cost of electricity that net-metered customers generate.

Electricity prices could become more responsive to fluctuating commodity costs if proposed regulatory amendments are adopted in Ontario.

After a year of operational upheaval and more modifications to electricity pricing policies, BOMA Toronto’s annual workshop to address the complexities of the global adjustment had a lot of ground to cover.

It appears that seven weeks of COVID-19-related electricity rate relief for residential and small business customers did not adversely undermine Ontario power system revenue.

For now, residential and small business customers enrolled for either time-of-use (TOU) rates or tiered pricing under the provincial regulated price plan will be charged the off-peak TOU rate of 8.5 cents per kilowatt-hour for all electricity consumption.