AQCIE-CIFQ
Joint intervener for Quebec's large industrial electricity consumers.
AQCIE-CIFQ, which speaks for Quebec's heaviest industrial power users, filed its own wording for Article 5.52 of Hydro-Québec's data-centre tariff on 7 October 2026, in the middle of the regulator's hearing.
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AQCIE-CIFQ is the joint intervener for large industrial electricity users at the Régie de l'énergie du Québec. It brings together two bodies that have intervened side by side since at least 2003. The Association québécoise des consommateurs industriels d'électricité, founded in 1981, said in a 2022 filing that it represents about fifty large consumers using some 36 TWh a year. The Conseil de l'industrie forestière du Québec speaks for sawmills and pulp, paper and panel makers, about 165 plants.
In case R-4333-2026, on Hydro-Québec's proposed data-centre rate, the group applied to intervene on 16 March 2026 and set out its written case on 20 July. On 7 October 2026, during the public hearing, it put forward its own text for tariff article 5.52.
Its members buy power on Hydro-Québec's large-power rates, so the shape of a new data-centre class touches them directly. The draft would bill data centres C$32.70 per kilowatt each month and 8.71 cents for every kilowatt-hour.
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