Understanding Your Bill

These are the costs of delivering electricity from generating stations across the province to Atikokan Hydro Inc., then to your home or business. This includes the costs to build and maintain the transmission and distribution lines, towers, and poles, and operate provincial and local electricity systems.

A portion of these charges are fixed, and do not change from month to month. The rest are variable and increase or decrease depending on the amount of electricity that you use.

The delivery charge also includes costs relating to electricity lost through distributing electricity to your home or business. Atikokan Hydro Inc. collects this money and pays this amount directly to our suppliers.

^{*When electricity is delivered over a power line, it is normal for a small amount of power to be consumed or lost as heat. Equipment, such as wires and transformers, consumes power before it gets to your home or business.}