Provincial Transmission Service tariffs and the Export Transmission Service tariff, effective January 1, 2014, have been set under a recent Ontario Energy Board (OEB) rate order.
The Provincial Transmission Service rates billed by the IESO are:
• Network Service Rate: $3.82/kW of demand (up from the 2013 rate of $3.63/kW)
• Line Connection Service Rate: $0.82/kW of demand (up from the 2013 rate of $0.75/kW)
• Transformation Connection Service Rate: $1.98/kW of demand (up from the 2012 rate of $1.85/kW).
The IESO collects OEB-regulated transmission service charges from applicable market participants and distributes payments to transmitters. These are billed monthly by the IESO using the following Charge Types:
• 650 Network Service Charge
• 651 Line Connection Service Charge
• 652 Transformation Connection Service Charge.
The 2014 Export Transmission Service tariff is unchanged from the 2013 rate, at $2.00/MWh. The ETS tariff applies to all wheel-through and export transactions from Ontario and is billed monthly by the IESO using Charge Type 653, Export Transmission Service Charge.
The January 9, 2014 OEB rate order is available at: http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/_Documents/Decisions/Rate_Order_HONI_TX_20140109.pdf.