Energy Regulatory Update (Q3, 2021)

  • December 18, 2021
  • Shepherd Rubenstein Professional Corporation

The Q3 2021 quarterly round-up of important developments in the Ontario energy sector.
Below were some of the key regulatory happenings between July and September.

Ontario Energy Board

The OEB’s modernization efforts continue. The OEB:

The OEB also issued some significant decisions. During the past three months it:

It released for comments an OEB Staff Discussion Paper on updating the CDM Guidelines for Electricity Distributors, and a proposal to amend the Distribution System Code to facilitate connection of DERs.

The OEB accepted Assurances of Voluntary Compliance with two different entities regarding operating in the wholesale market without a license, one entity related issuing individual bills to customers with a being a licenses sub-metered, and Enbridge Gas regarding disconnection-related practices,

The Market Surveillance Panel also issued its semi-annual monitoring report.