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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...