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Exposing ATCO Energy: Hidden Fees, Overcharging Controversies, and the Need for Greater Transparency in Alberta’s Utility Market

We have recommended to Nathan Neudorf, Minister of Affordability and Utilities, as well as to Chris Hunt, Alberta’s Utilities Consumer Advocate (UCA) that retailers and regulated providers in the...

Milestone Achieved – Market Stability!

  Earlier this month, the Market Power Mitigation Regulation, Alta Reg 43/2024, came into effect and is already working to stabilize prices in the market. Where once generators had free reign to...

Still on the RRO? Time to Switch!

Don’t you just love opening your monthly electricity bills from ENMAX, EPCOR, or Direct Energy? Of course not; how could you possibly enjoy being overcharged as a consumer on the Regulated Rate Option...

With NewGen Energy, What You See is What You Get

Full Disclosure: NewGen Energy is the retail division of UTILITYnet, a local, independent energy company serving Alberta since 1978. As Albertans, we’ve lived through every phase of deregulation, are...

Alberta Government Picking Winners and Losers in Electricity Market

Governments everywhere have repeatedly proven that they are failures in picking winners and losers. And; here we go again! Alberta Electricity 101 says that if you as an electricity consumer choose...

3 Strikes Against New Electricity Policies Means its Game Over for Alberta

Updated: May 9, 2018 “Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.” – Joyce Meyer So here we are in the year of our lord. and; we are in a very deep rut. Our...

Hail, Hail Great & All-Knowing Electricity

Electricity has played a roll in all of our lives. Your first memorable experience with it might have been as simple as when you learned that the light switch made dark into daylight. For others –...

NewGen Offers More Value For Less

In 2011 we decided to enter Alberta’s energy industry. Our goal was simple, we wanted to offer electricity, natural gas, and green energy to Albertans for less. People told us we were crazy and that...

Electricity De-Evolution

The North American utility industry is under extreme pressure to re-imagine how the industry will operate in the future. The utility industry is; facing increasingly difficult carbon emission...