The Price Isn't Right: The Need for Reform in Consumer Electricity Pricing

Donald Dewees

C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder, 2010, issue 124

Abstract: Electricity prices should fully link the consumer price to peak-period generation costs, environmental costs and the high cost of new generation, according to an expert analysis released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. The author says such pricing reform is required to reduce both financial and electrical stress on the system and help prepare Ontario – and other provinces – for the rising costs of new generation.

Keywords: Economic Growth and Innovation; electricity pricing; Province of Ontario; conservation; environmental cost; real-time pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L94 O13 Q48 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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