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Rates

The rates listed below are approved by the Régie de l'énergie and specified in Schedules 9 and 10 of the Hydro-Québec Open Access Transmission Tariff.

Firm service:
Annual service1 C$72.00/kW/year
Monthly service C$6.00/kW/month
Weekly service C$1.38/kW/week
Daily service C$0.28/kW/day
Non-firm service:
Monthly service C$6.00/kW/month
Weekly service C$1.38/kW/week
Daily service C$0.20/kW/day
Hourly service
C$8.22/MW/hour
(1) Pursuant to Régie de l'énergie Decision D-2009-015 and D-2009-023, a rate rider reduction of $0.10/kW/year is applied to the demand charge for the annual service for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2009.

Charges for ancillary services for point to point transmission services

  Delivery
  Yearly
(CDN $/kW)
Monthly
(CDN $/kW)
Weekly
(CDN $/MW)
Daily
firm
(CDN $/MW)
Daily
non firm
(CDN $/MW)
Hourly
(CDN $/MW)
System control service
Included Included Included Included Included Included
Voltage control service
0.35 0.03 6.73 1.35 0.96 0.04
Frequency control service2
0.35 0.03 6.73 1.35 0.96 0.04
Spinning reserve service2
1.31 0.11 25.19 5.04 3.59 0.15
Non-Spinning reserve service2
0.65 0.05 12.50 2.50 1.78 0.07

Energy Imbalance Service (energy delivered)
- Amount of energy delivered by the Transmission Provider is greater than the scheduled amount:
The Transmission Customer compensates the Transmission Provider at a rate of 11.25¢/kWh

- Amount of energy delivered by the Transmission Provider is less than the scheduled amount:
The Transmission Provider compensates the Transmission Customer at a rate of 3.75¢/kWh

Energy Imbalance Service (energy received)
- Amount of energy received by the Transmission Provider is greater than the scheduled amount:
The Transmission Provider compensates the Transmission Customer at a rate of 3.75 ¢/kWh

- Amount of energy received by the Transmission Provider is less than the scheduled amount:
The Transmission Customer compensates the Transmission Provider at a rate of 11.25 ¢/kWh

(2) For transmission services serving load within the Québec Control Area.

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