Alberta’s electricity market is undergoing extensive changes in order to implement certain elements of the province’s Climate Leadership Plan, announced on November 22, 2015.1 The main components of that plan are: an accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power generation by 2030; […]

An earlier issue of this Journal1 reported on a claim brought by Trillium Wind2 in the Ontario Courts relating to decision by an Ontario Power Authority to cancel a wind energy contract. That matter is still before the courts. In […]

Canadian energy policy and regulation are currently dominated by measures to address climate change and by the scope of participation in review processes for proposed new energy infrastructure projects. The two issues are directly related, inasmuch as the demands of […]

  The challenges posed by the production, distribution and consumption of energy in today’s world continue to escalate at a rapid pace that confutes any perception of energy regulation as dry and remote – somewhat stable and reasonably predictable. Stability […]

The New Industry Dynamics Six factors currently drive the energy sector in Canada at the national level: the drop in the price of oil; pipeline delays; the increase in shale gas; the increase in the delivery of crude oil by […]

On July 27, 2015 the Alberta Utilities Commission released the first contested Canadian decision involving energy market manipulation. The 217 page decision1 followed a three year investigation and a three-week hearing. This is not the first decision on this topic. […]