This year is the 100th anniversary of public utility regulation in Alberta, a milestone that has been marked by various events, publications and presentations. In May, the occasion was reflected in the program for the annual conference of the Canadian […]

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 […]

This article emerges from a panel discussion at the 2015 conference of the Canadian Association of Members of Public Utility Tribunals (CAMPUT) entitled the “Social Licence to Regulate”.

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.

The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) concluded the $93 million investment of Nova Scotia Power Incorporated (NSPI) in a wind power project called South Canoe was a capital expenditure that should be included in NSPI’s rate base.1 South […]