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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TAC Deferral Account – Annual Applications
The AUC has approved the use of a harmonized schedules template for annual transmission access charge (TAC) deferral account applications.
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2016 Generic Cost of Capital
The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected the Alberta Utilities’ proposal to finalize return on equity and capital structures determined in the 2013 generic cost of capital proceeding for 2016.
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PBR Generic Proceeding
Recall from a previous article that the Alberta Utilities Commission has initiated proceedings on the second generation of Performance Based Regulation (PBR) with a request for feedback on the draft issues list. Several Alberta utilities and the Alberta Customers (Consumers Coalition of Alberta, Utilities Consumer Advocate and City of Calgary) have submitted responses outlining a number of concerns with the preliminary issues list.
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PBR Generic Proceeding
On May 8, 2015 the AUC issued a Bulletin soliciting input on issues parameters and issues for the upcoming hearing on performance-based regulation (PBR) plans.
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2016 Generic Cost of Capital
The CCA, UCA and City of Calgary (the “customers”) have jointly have responded to a proposal by the Alberta Utilities to expedite the 2016 GCOC proceeding.
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AESO 2014 ISO Tariff Compliance Filing
In October of 2014, the AESO submitted its 2014 ISO Tariff compliance filing as per Decision 2014-242. After initial information requests, the Commission split the proceeding into two modules so as to allow for further testing of the AESO’s compliance with Commission Directions 5-8.
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EDTI 2015-2017 Transmission GTA
On May 14, 2015 the Alberta Utilities Commission made a determination on the confidentiality of documents submitted by the CCA as part of their intervener evidence in the EDTI 2015-2017 GTA proceeding.
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2016 Generic Cost of Capital
On April 30, 2015, only 6 weeks after the 2013 Generic Cost of Capital decision (applying to 2013, 2014 and 2015), the Alberta Utilities Commission issued a letter initiating the 2016 GCOC proceeding, and requesting feedback regarding the scope of the hearing and approaches to the application process. The Alberta Utilities shortly thereafter issued a response proposing an alternate approach to the 2016 GCOC.
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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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