The AUC has released its decision on the Generic Cost of Capital for 2016, 2017 and 2018 (interim).
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EPCOR Energy’s 2016-2017 RRT Application
On August 11, 2016 the AUC informed participants in EPCOR Energy’s 2016-2017 regulated rate tariff application proceeding that it had inadvertently relied on the assistance of a visiting scholar who had previously provided evidence on behalf of EPCOR in the same proceeding.
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AESO 2015 Deferral Account Reconciliation
The AUC has decided that it will hear the arguments of primary service customers through an oral hearing in the AESO 2015 deferral account reconciliation proceeding.
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2017 AESO Tariff Consultations
On September 19, the AESO published stakeholder comments regarding the scope of a future 2017 tariff application. Most notable is the response from proponents of energy storage.
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AltaLink 2017-2018 GTA (Customer Contribution Proposal)
The Commission has decided to strike two sections of AltaLink’s 2017-2018 general tariff application in which AltaLink had proposed to modify how customer contributions are paid.
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MSA 2016 Retail Market Reports
On September 6th, the Market Surveillance Administrator released two “Retail Market Reports” titled Assessment of Inter-jurisdictional Retail Rate Comparisons and Trends in Regulated Retail Electricity and Natural Gas Bills.
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Government of Alberta’s Response to Terminated PPAs
On July 25, 2016, the Attorney General (AG) of Alberta on behalf of the Government of Alberta submitted an application to the Court of Queen’s bench to effectively reverse ENMAX’s termination of their Battle River Power Purchasing Arrangement.¹ The balancing pool is also named in the application because it accepted ENMAX’s termination of the PPA. The other PPA holders are named as respondents because they have termination requests pending.
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Transmission Cost Recovery Alternatives
On August 25, the Alberta Utilities Commission released Bulletin 2016-16 to provide resolution for the proceeding it initiated in January 2013 to investigate potential new policies to mitigate the impacts of recovering the cost of new transmission infrastructure.
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Second Generation Performance Based Regulation
The oral hearing portion of the Commission-initiated next generation Performance Based Regulation (PBR) generic proceeding wrapped up at the end of July 2016.
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Rule 007 Streamlined Application Audit
On July 26, 2016 the Commission released Bulletin 2016-14 on compliance for streamlined transmission facility applications.
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