Mr. Stephen Rhodes Deputy Minister of Energy Email: [email protected] Dear Mr. Rhodes, I am writing to you with a request that you can bring my letter to the attention of the OEB Modernization Review Panel.
Entrusted by Toronto Council to manage the city’s electricity distribution system, Toronto Hydro’s CEO Anthony Haines had another spectacular year in 2015 in both operations and compensation.
This morning, the Ontario government announced its intention to introduce changes to the OEB Act. The key component is to “include a new tool that would allow Cabinet to determine key transmission infrastructure to be built by licensees that would not go through a ‘needs’ test by the OEB.”
Last night at the close of business, the Ontario Energy Board publicly announced a reorganization of the Board’s administrative functions. The public announcement includes this statement — “the Chief Operating Officer to become Executive Advisor to the Chair & CEO”. This brief comment hints at a simultaneous, but undisclosed, reorganization of the Board’s decision making …
In a return to the historic practice of appointing OEB members without any transparent review process, the McGuinty government has appointed two new part-time Board Members, effective February 1, 2013, each for a two-year term. Public notice of these appointments was after their effective date. The new appointees, with their official bios are:
Preface: As part of this site’s series addressing some of the challenges underlying Ontario’s electricity system operations, here is a report on delivery reliability. Data reported by the Ontario Energy Board for the period 2005-2011 indicates a declining trend in power delivery reliability for Ontario’s urban consumers. These results indicate problems with the smart meter …
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OEB Chair’s Rosemarie Leclair’s most recent major public address provides a clear view of her regulatory priorities and philosophy.
My thesis at the outset of this series, has been that Toronto Hydro — a poorly performing, high cost utility — is controlled by a CEO seeking to exploit leadership weakness at the Ontario Energy Board in an effort to move the utility toward becoming a deregulated monopoly. Developments at an Ontario Energy Association breakfast …
Last week, Toronto Hydro issued an internal memo to employees announcing the appointment of long-time Ontario Energy Board member Paul Sommerville as the utility’s new Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel effective September 10, 2012. This latest appointment reflects a continuation of the rotating door trend initiated by the appointment of Rosemarie Leclair who …
The Ontario Energy Board has a number of appointments to the Board coming up. It is critically important to the long-term interests of both energy consumers and regulated energy companies that the Ontario government fill the position of the second Vice Chair, a position that the government has negligently left vacant for almost 18 months. The …