Due to generation shortages in transmission-constrained areas, PJM capacity auctions were producing high wholesale prices in Maryland. The Maryland Commission designed a three-part solution: (1) Select through competition a wholesale generator to serve in the constrained area. (2) Order Maryland’s […]
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. […]
1. Introduction The last quarter of 2015 was a busy one in respect of judicial activity of interest to Alberta utilities: a decision by the Alberta Court of Appeal (ABCA); two decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada; and two […]
The Ontario Energy Board (“OEB”) has commenced a process to determine the approach to be used to set wireline pole attachment fees across Ontario.2 In a November 2015 letter, the OEB initiated a “comprehensive policy review” of miscellaneous rates and […]
“High court won’t hear challenge The National Energy Board has the right to limit evidence or exclude participants from the Kinder Morgan pipeline hearing, or any other hearing it conducts. That’s the effect of a Supreme Court of Canada decision […]
On April 30, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal to Jessica Ernst in her ongoing claim against the Energy Resources Conservation Board (predecessor to the Alberta Energy Regulator) (the “Board”) and others relating to the damages […]
Two cases decided by the Supreme Court on September 25th, 2015 paved the way for utility regulators to address utility costs without fear of formalism […]
In today’s world it is rare that a public utility gets any good news. Recently the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the cost of stranded assets is for the account of the shareholder not the ratepayer1 confirming three earlier […]
On September 3, 2015, British Columbia’s Environmental Appeal Board (“EAB”) issued a precedent-setting decision (the “Decision”) granting an appeal brought on behalf of the members of the Fort Nelson First Nations […]