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Navigant Report Overview: “Starting a conversation: Is there flexibility to adapt Canada’s current utility regulation landscape?”

Navigant Report Overview: “Starting a conversation: Is there flexibility to adapt Canada’s current utility regulation landscape?”

Author: Francis Bradley ×

Ensuring that the lights stay on and Canadian businesses can operate 24/7 is an essential public good provided by the country’s electricity sector. However, as with other sectors, electric utilities must innovate to meet the requirements of the modern age[…]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Limited and Hydro-Québec 2018 SCC 46

Author: David MacDougall ×

This Decision is in relation to the 1969 contract between Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Limited (“CFL Co.”) and Hydro-Québec which set out the legal and financial framework for the construction and operation of the Upper Churchill hydroelectric plant on the Churchill River in Labrador. […]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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Capital Power Corporation: The Alberta Line Loss Debate

Author: Gordon E. Kaiser ×

The issue of the locational treatment of transmission line losses has a long history in Alberta. Indeed, when Alberta’s electric system was deregulated in 1995, a key principle for the new, open access transmission system, was that generators would pay charges or receive credits based on the location of supply to ensure maximum efficiency of the system[…]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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Merger Rejected: Common Sense from Washington

Author: Scott Hempling ×

Washington State, that is. The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission has rejected the proposed acquisition of Avista (formerly Washington Water Power) by Hydro One, the government-controlled utility serving in Ontario, Canada. The Commission’s December 2018 Order emphasized two problems[…]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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Electricity Storage in North America

Authors: Paul Kraske, Milosz Zemanek, Henry Ren and Tim Pavlov ×

Energy Storage is said by some to be the ‘’Holy Grail’’ of energy technology[…]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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NAFTA 2.0: Drilling Down – The Impact of CUSMA/USMCA on Canadian Energy Stakeholders

Authors: John M. Weekes, Darrel H. Pearson, Lawrence E. Smith, K.C. and Margaret M. Kim ×

On November 30, 2018, after 14 months of heated negotiations, representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada signed the NAFTA 2.0, known as the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” (USMCA), or as referred to officially by the Government of Canada, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)[…]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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2018 Developments in Administrative Law Relevant to Energy Law and Regulation

Author: David J. Mullan ×

2018 was in many ways a landmark year in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Administrative Law jurisprudence. At a time marking the transition from the McLachlin to the Wagner Court, fissures continued to widen among the members of the Court with respect to not only the methodology for selection of the standard of review to be applied in judicial review of administrative decision-making but also the modalities by which predominant reasonableness review is conducted[…]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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EDITORIAL

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

Each year when we write this Annual Review we face the same issues. The first issue on the list is always pipelines. In the 2016 Annual Review the first heading was “The Pipeline Delays are Over”. Last year, the first heading of the review was “Pipeline Delays are Back”. This year, the first heading is “Pipeline Delays Continue”[…]

March 2019 – Volume 7, issue 1 2019
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