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Authors: Rowland J. Harrison, K.C. and Gordon E. Kaiser ×

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 […]

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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One Hundred Years of Public Utility Regulation in Alberta

Author: Willie Grieve, Q.C. ×

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 […]

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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The Economic and Political Realities of Regulation: Lessons for the Future

Author: Mark A. Jamison ×

The first electricity price review in the UK provided a moment in regulatory history where what we had learned from the past and what we hoped for the future converged and nearly exploded.

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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The Social Licence to Regulate: Energy and the Decline of Confidence in Public Authorities

Authors: Michael Cleland and Laura Nourallah ×

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”.

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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From Streetcars to Solar Panels: Stranded Cost Policy in the United States

Author: Scott Hempling ×

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.

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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Regulation and Development of a New Energy Industry: Tidal Energy in Nova Scotia

Author: William Lahey ×

In the most recent sitting of Nova Scotia’s House of Assembly, Energy Minister Michel Samson introduced Bill No. 110, the Marine Renewable-energy Act.

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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Expert Evidence for Energy Lawyers and Regulators

Author: Philip Tunley ×

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.

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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Cape Breton Explorations Ltd v Nova Scotia (Attorney General)

Author: William Lahey ×

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 […]

September 2015 – Volume 3, issue 3 2015
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