The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld FERC’s Order 745.1 That order requires operators of wholesale energy markets to treat demand side bids comparably to generation bids. Comparable treatment requires that demand side bidders (a) be allowed to compete with generators […]
Arbitration is the common dispute resolution procedure in the energy industry. The reasons differ depending on whether it is the upstream sector or the downstream sector. Most of the writing about energy arbitration relates to the upstream sector, which is […]
My purpose here is to take a few minutes, after 100 years, to put Alberta’s public utility regulatory agency into some economic, legal, political and historical context.1 In 1915, the province found itself inundated with complaints from Albertans who wanted […]
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.