Low-Income Energy Network Takes on the Ontario Energy Board

ACTO is intervening, on behalf of the Low-Income Energy Network, in the Ontario Energy Board's (OEB) Proceeding/Written Hearing on electricity sub-metering which was announced on April 4, 2005. The OEB is determining whether sub-metering should be regulated by the Board, and in what way. The proceeding is currently adjourned without date.

ACTO's position is that electricity sub-metering is not cost effective, not an effective method to achieve energy conservation in the rental market, and not fair to tenants. Our intervention will focus on consumer protections for low-income tenants, if sub-metering is allowed to proceed, drawing on ACTO's recommendations in the report titled Zapping Tenants: A critical analysis of sub-metering in the residential rental sector. ACTO prepared this report on behalf of the Low-Income Energy Network.

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