Retirement of ATCO Electric Assets in Fort McMurray Wildfire

The Alberta Utilities Commission (the Commission) has released a decision on whether ATCO Electric Ltd.’s (ATCO Electric) costs of assets destroyed in the Fort McMurray Wildfire are eligible to be included in rate base and recovered from customers or whether the shareholders bear the loss. This matter was previously deferred in the release of the first decision in Proceeding 22742.[1]



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Bill 13

On April 20, 2018 DOE hosted a webinar to share information on the recently passed Bill 13. The primary purpose of this bill is to amend five acts in order to enable the AUC, AESO And MSA to fulfill their roles in setting up the capacity market.

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UCA Appeal on FortisAlberta Land Sale

Alberta Court of Appeal Decision 2016 ABCA 333 deals with a request from the Utilities Consumer Advocate (UCA) to appeal AUC Decision 20271-D01-2015, which approved a FortisAlberta land sale and its subsequent removal from rate base, and 20990-D01-2016, an R&V decision upholding the first decision.

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Sale of Crowsnest Pass Electric Utility

On July 5th, FortisAlberta filed an application with the Alberta Utilities Commission for approval to purchase the electric utility assets of the Municipality of the Crowsnest Pass.

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Utility Asset Disposition Appeal

The Alberta Utilities’ appeal of the Commission Utility Asset Disposition was dismissed by the Alberta Court of Appeal on September 18, 2015.

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ASSET DISPOSITION APPEAL

The Alberta Court of Appeal has granted the Alberta Utilities (ATCO Gas and Pipelines Ltd, AltaGas Utilities Inc., FortisAlberta Inc., ATCO Electric, Enmax Power & Distribution and EPCOR Distribution and Transmission Inc.) leave to appeal two Commission decisions related to utility asset disposition.

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