The Ontario government says it's cutting electricity rates for 21 days to help residents spending more time at home due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The province says that starting today, electricity prices have dropped to the off-peak rate of 8.2 cents per kilowatt-hour -- less than half the on-peak rate -- 24 hours a day.
It says the rate cut will be applied automatically to both time-of-use and tiered rate plans on the bills of residential customers, small businesses and farms who pay regulated rates set by the Ontario Energy Board.