The Managing Editors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Bennett Jones in the production of this Issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly.
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 […]
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.