On April 16, 2015, the AESO met with Industry stakeholders to present information on refinements being made to the AESO connection process. Various initiatives are discussed below.
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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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MLA Retail Market Review
The Department of Energy continues to move towards implementing the 33 accepted recommendations of the MLA Retail Market Review Committee (RMRC) as per the action plan released on December 18, 2014.
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UCA Advisory Board
Back in March of 2015, the Minister of Service Alberta considered abolishing the Utility Consumer Advocate (UCA) advisory board.
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2016 Generic Cost of Capital
In a letter dated April 2, 2015, the Commission has indicated their intention to initiate the next generic cost of capital (GCOC) proceeding before the end of April.
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TAC Deferral Account – Annual Applications
Back in December of 2014, the Commission approved a joint application from distribution facilities owners (DFOs) Fortis Alberta, Enmax Power Corporation, ATCO Electric and EPCOR Distribution and Transmission for a standardized schedules template to be used for quarterly transmission access charge (TAC) deferral account rider applications.
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