On February 2, the AUC issued a Bulletin to clarify financial reporting requirements under Rule 005.
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AESO 2016 Tariff Update
On February 2, the AESO filed a 2016 tariff update. The timing and objective of this filing is consistent with what the AESO communicated in its December 14th stakeholder consultation meeting.
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MSA Complaint Against TransAlta
On July 27, the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) issued Decision 3110-D01-2015, ruling on the Market Surveillance Administrator’s (MSA) allegations that TransAlta engaged in anticompetitive behaviour in the Alberta market. Specifically, these events relate to outages at TransAlta units in the period between December 2010 and February 2011. The units in question are subject to Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), which means that different parties (namely, Enmax and Capital Power) are entitled to the output.
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Stakeholder Dispute Resolutions, a “Grassroots” Proposal
On June 17, 2015, the AESO and IPPSA jointly made a public presentation to discuss how industry might be able to better resolve potential disputes before they are brought to more formalized consultations or processes under the AESO, AUC, or MSA.
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OEB Rate Design Policy to Eliminate per-KWh Distribution Charges
In April 2015, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) announced a final policy position on electric distribution rate design for residential customers.
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2013 Generic Cost of Capital
On April 21, ATCO, AltaGas, and EPCOR filed applications with the Court of Appeal to challenge the recent Cost of Capital Decision.
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Capital Tracker Filing Requirements
On April 8th, the AUC released Decision 3558-D01-2015, which revisited the issue of minimum filing requirements for PBR utilities filing annual capital tracker applications.
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AltaLink 2012-13 Deferral Account
On December 17, 2014, AltaLink filed an application to reconcile the capital expenses of AESO direct assign projects completed during 2012 and 2013.
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AltaLink 2015-16 GTA
Subsequent to AltaLink’s November 18, 2014 application, AltaLink filed responses to information requests in February.
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Power Pool Trading Report
In a notice posted on April 7th, the AESO indicated that it is indefinitely postponing changes to its historical trading report.
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