{"id":237804,"date":"2021-01-28T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/?p=237804"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:56:21","slug":"ontario-extends-off-peak-electricity-rates-to-provide-relief-for-families-small-businesses-and-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/ontario-extends-off-peak-electricity-rates-to-provide-relief-for-families-small-businesses-and-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Extends Off-Peak Electricity Rates to Provide Relief for Families, Small Businesses and Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is extending electricity rate relief for families, small businesses and farms to support those spending more time at home in response to the provincial Stay-at-Home Order. The government will continue to hold electricity prices to the off-peak rate of 8.5 cents per kilowatt-hour until February 9, 2021. This lower rate is available 24 hours per day, seven days a week for Time-Of-Use and tiered customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know staying at home means using more electricity during the day when electricity prices are higher, that&#8217;s why we are extending the off-peak electricity rate to provide households, small businesses and farms with stable and predictable electricity bills when they need it most,&#8221; said Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, Minister of Indigenous Affairs. &#8220;We thank Ontarians for following the provincial Stay-at-Home Order to help stop the spread of COVID-19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/release\/60148\/ontario-extends-off-peak-electricity-rates-to-provide-relief-for-families-small-businesses-and-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is extending electricity rate relief for families, small businesses and farms to support those spending more time at home in response to the provincial Stay-at-Home Order. The government will continue to hold electricity prices to the off-peak rate of 8.5 cents per kilowatt-hour until February 9, 2021. This lower rate is available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edcns.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}