This article emerges from a panel discussion at the 2015 conference of the Canadian Association of Members of Public Utility Tribunals (CAMPUT) entitled the “Social Licence to Regulate”.

A utility’s obligation to serve includes an obligation to invest—in the generating plants, transmission networks, pipelines, compressors, switching equipment, wires, poles and pumping stations that are necessary to fulfill its obligation to serve.

Recent court decisions dealing with the admissibility and assessment of expert evidence are already confronting energy regulators with new challenges, as shown by the decision of the Alberta Utilities Commission in Canada’s first electricity market manipulation case.

This article summarizes the key components of Ontario’s past and present activities in energy conservation. It then uses this background to identify some of the likely key elements and drivers of future activities. Before going further, it is useful to […]

1. Introduction The act for the Reform of the Renewable Energy Act1 (the “Reform Act” or “EEG”) was approved by the German Bundestag on 27 June 2014 and on 11 July by the German Upper House. It entered into force […]

Introduction The emergence of shale production as an important component of natural gas supply in the United States has markedly altered the operating environment of the North American gas industry over the last decade or so. Prior to that, the […]