Canadian Energy Reliability Council INTRODUCTION On May 28, 2026, the Canadian Energy Reliability Council (“CERC”) convened an Energy Reliability Summit in Ottawa to discuss the reliability challenges facing Canada’s energy system. The Summit brought together industry leaders, policymakers, reliability experts, […]

INTRODUCTION Canada’s electricity grid is vast, complex, and quietly impressive. From Labrador to Vancouver Island, most Canadians live within reach of reliable power. Yet beneath that apparent unity lies a striking fragmentation: ten provinces, ten regulators, and ten distinct sets […]

INTRODUCTION This article considers the economic regulators’ review of integrated resources planning (IRP) for gas and electric utilities in Canada. The IRP process has typically been conducted by each regulated utility considering only the energy demands of its customers without […]

INTRODUCTION Near the end of 2023, two strikingly similar decisions were issued almost simultaneously, one by the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), the other by the Ontario Energy Board (OEB). Both raised significant concerns about investments in natural gas infrastructure, […]

I. INTRODUCTION In 2022, following a discussion with Mongolia’s utility regulator on the importance of evaluating utility performance, a delegate asked how regulators, in turn, evaluate their own performance. It was surprisingly difficult to respond to this question. Traditional metrics […]

THE BACKGROUND The First Day. Gordon Kaiser[1] A little over ten years ago on a bright fall afternoon in Ottawa a thousand copies of a new publication called the Energy Regulation Quarterly came off the printing press. The next day […]