Sadly, the first item in this issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly (ERQ) is an In Memoriam remembering Gordon E. Kaiser, the Managing Editor who was instrumental in the founding of ERQ more than 10 years ago, who died on May […]

Gordon Edward Kaiser   Bob Heggie I am honored that Tim Egan and Rowland Harrison, Gordon’s collaborators on this journal, asked me to offer a remembrance of Gordon. Gordon was our friend, teacher, and a giant in the fields of […]

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 abandonment of the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) in 2017 appeared, at the time, to sound a second death knell for the potential commercial development of the extensive natural gas reserves in the Mackenzie Delta. After a protracted regulatory review, […]