Debt Retirement Charge rates

Reduced DRC Rate Table

DRC is applied at a rate of 0.7 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity consumed in most Ontario communities. Electricity users in certain areas will pay a reduced rate.

The reduced rates apply to all users who consume electricity in the reduced rate service areas, regardless of who supplies the electricity. Collectors are required to charge the correct DRC rate to each user depending on the location of the consumption.

Reduced rate areas are defined as the service areas of the local utilities listed below, as they existed on October 30, 1998. For items 18 and 19, the reduced rate applies only to the specific location mentioned. Any changes to the service areas of the utilities since this date have no impact on the consumers entitled to a reduced rate. For example, consumers in any area serviced on October 30, 1998 by the Hydro-Electric Commission of the City of Ottawa are entitled to a DRC rate of 0.69 cents per kilowatt hour. Consumers in other parts of the recently amalgamated City of Ottawa are not entitled to the reduced rate.