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Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Statutory Appeal - Rates Application FortisAlberta Inc. ("Fortis") applied to the Alberta Court of Appeal (“ABCA”) for permission to appeal an Alberta Utilities Commission (“AUC”) generic cost of capital decision...
Link to Bulletin Summarized Download Summary in PDF Oil and Gas – Revenue Requirement For 2024/25, the Government of Alberta approved a revenue requirement of $225.2 million to support the AER’s operations. The AER published the administration fees allocated according...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Water – Review and Variance Application EMCOR Utility (2035570 Alberta Ltd.) (“EMCOR”) applied for approval of its general rate application (“GRA”) regarding its potable water system for the 2023-2027 test years....
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Gas – Rates Application ATCO Pipelines (“ATCO”) filed its general rate application (“GRA”) for 2024-2026, seeking AUC approval of the amount of revenue it requires to provide safe and reliable gas transmission...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Rates - Electricity Application Pivotal Energy Partners Inc. (“Pivotal Energy”) applied under s 3 of the Fair, Efficient and Open Competition Regulation (“FEOCR”), seeking permission to share records not available to...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Rates - Electricity Application Kinbrook Solar, GP Inc. and Solar Krafte Utilities Inc. (the “Applicants”) applied to construct and operate a 450-megawatts (“MW”) solar power plant designated as Rainier Solar Farm,...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Rates - Electricity Application ENMAX Power Corporation (“ENMAX”) submitted its 2024 annual performance-based regulation (“PBR”) rate adjustment filing pursuant to the provisions of the third generation PBR (“PBR3”)...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF PBR-Rates - Gas Application ATCO Gas (“AG”) submitted its 2024 annual performance-based regulation (“PBR”) rate adjustment filing pursuant to the provisions of the third generation PBR (“PBR3”) plan. AG requested...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Rates - Electricity Application EPCOR Distribution & Transmission Inc. (“EDTI”) submitted its 2024 annual performance-based regulation (“PBR”) rate adjustment filing pursuant to the provisions of the third...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Facilities - Solar Application ATCO Electric Ltd. (“AE”) submitted its 2024 annual performance-based regulation (“PBR”) rate adjustment filing pursuant to the provisions of the third generation PBR (“PBR3”) plan. AE...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Rates – Special Charges Application Apex Utilities Inc. (“AUI”) applied for approval of the 2024 annual performance-based regulation (“PBR”) rate adjustment filed according to the third generation PBR (“PBR3”) plan....
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Rates – Rate Increase Application EPCOR Energy Alberta GP Inc. (“EPCOR”) applied for approval of its updated 2024 interim regulated rate tariff (“RRT”) non-energy rates. Decision The AUC approved EPCOR’s updated 2024...
Link to Decision Summarized Download Summary in PDF Gas – Tolls Application Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (“Enbridge”) applied for approval of the Mainline Tolling Settlement (the “Settlement”). Decision The Canadian Energy Regulator (“CER”) approved the application, as...
Link to Decision Summarized Rates – Proceeding Costs The AUC amended Rule 022: Rules on Costs in Utility Rates Proceedings (“Rule 022”), including the scale of costs, which governs the recovery of the costs of participation in rates proceedings before the AUC. The AUC...
Link to Decision Summarized Power - Rates Application AltaLink Management Ltd. (“AML”) applied for approval of a negotiated settlement agreement (“NSA”) with respect to its 2024 - 2025 general tariff application (“GTA”). Decision The AUC approved the NSA, as filed,...
Link to Decision Summarized Rates – Revenue Requirement Application ATCO Pipelines (“AP”) requested approval of the 2024 revenue requirement of $362,852,000 on an interim and refundable basis. Decision The AUC approved AP’s 2024 interim revenue requirement of...
Link to Decision Summarized Oil – Rates Application Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC (“Trans Mountain”) applied for approval of firm service recontracting for 47,500 barrels per day (“bpd”) of capacity to the Westridge Marine Terminal for a period ending after six months...
Link to Decision Summarized Gas - Tolls Application Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc. (“TNPI”) filed an application requesting approval of the Incentive Tolls Settlement Agreement (“ITSA”), including: the framework for establishing TNPI’s revenue requirement and tolls set...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application Previously, the Alberta Court of Appeal (“ABCA”) allowed ATCO Electric Ltd.’s (“AE”) appeal of the Alberta Utilities Commission (“AUC”) Decision 21609-D01-2019 (the “Z Factor Decision”) and returned the...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application FortisAlberta Inc. (“FortisAB”) applied for approval its third-generation performance-based regulation (“PBR3”) plan compliance filing and 2024 PBR annual rate adjustment application, as directed by the AUC...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application EPCOR Distribution & Transmission Inc. (“EDTI”) submitted for approval its third-generation performance-based regulation (“PBR3”) plan compliance filing and 2024 PBR annual rate adjustment application, as...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application ENMAX Power Corporation (“ENMAX”) submitted for approval its third-generation performance-based regulation (“PBR3”) plan compliance filing and 2024 PBR annual rate adjustment application PBR, as directed by...
Link to Decision Summarized Gas - Facilities Application Apex Utilities Inc. (“AUI”) applied for approval to install approximately 740 meters (“m”) of new 60.3-millimeter (“mm”) natural gas pipeline (“line 74”) and to split line 18 into lines 18 and 73 (the...
Link to Decision Summarized Gas - Rates Application Apex Utilities Inc. (“AUI”) applied for approval of, inter alia, its 2024 interim performance-based regulation (“PBR”) rate adjustment in accordance with the parameters of the third generation PBR established by the...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application The Alberta Electric System Operator (“AESO”) filed an application with the AUC, pursuant to ss 30 and 119 of the Electric Utilities Act (“EUA”), requesting approval of its 2024 update to the Independent...
Link to Decision Summarized Gas - Rates Application ATCO Gas, a division of ATCO Gas and Pipelines Ltd. (“ATCO Gas”) submitted for approval its third-generation performance-based regulation (“PBR3”) plan compliance filing and 2024 PBR annual rate adjustment...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application ATCO Electric Ltd. (“AE”) submitted for approval its third-generation performance-based regulation (“PBR3”) plan compliance filing and 2024 PBR annual rate adjustment application, as directed by the AUC in...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application Direct Energy Regulated Services (“DERS”) applied for approval of its 2024 regulated rate (“RRT”) and default rate tariff (“DRT”) interim rates. The proposed interim rates for 2024 were the same as the...
Link to Decision Summarized Rates - Transmission Costs Application ATCO Gas, a division of ATCO Gas and Pipelines Ltd. (“ATCO Gas”), requested approval of Rider T, which collects forecast transmission costs based on flow-through rates charged by NOVA Gas Transmission...
Link to Decision Summarized Water – Rates Application Properties of Northern Bear Inc. (“Northern Bear”) applied for approval of its current water rates on an interim basis, effective January 1, 2024, until the AUC approves the water rates on a final basis. Northern...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application The City of Red Deer (“Red Deer”) applied to continue its currently approved 2023 transmission facility owner (“TFO”) tariff of $467,397 per month on an interim and refundable basis, effective January 1,...
Link to Decision Summarized Rates - ISO Tariff Application The Alberta Electric System Operator (“AESO”) applied for approval of its 2024 Balancing Pool consumer allocation Rider F of $1.30 per megawatt hour (“MWh”). Decision The AUC approved the applied-for Rider F....
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Tariffs Application The Alberta Electric System Operator (“AESO”) applied for approval of a revised implementation plan for its adjusted metering practice (“AMP”) and related amendments to the Independent System Operator...
Link to Decision Summarized GAS- Rates Application In Decision 27084-D02-2023, the AUC determined the value of each of the base inputs to the formula, except the utility bond spread for the base period (“SPRDbase”). The AUC determined that it would use the average...
Link to Decision Summarized GAS - Rates Application The AUC initiates a mandatory review of cost-of-capital parameters every five years, subject to mid-term reopeners, on its own motion or upon application from interested parties. The cost-of-capital parameters apply...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity – Rates Application In September 2022, the AUC established Proceeding 27658 to examine the standards of service and the associated maximum investment levels (“MILs”) for residential services. Proceeding 27658 progressed in two...
Link to Decision Summarized GAS - Rates Application ATCO Gas (“AG”), a division of ATCO Gas and Pipelines Ltd., applied for approval of its 2023-2024 unaccounted-for gas (“UFG”) Rider D and Rider P, effective November 1, 2023. AG calculated Rider D to increase from...
Link to Decision Summarized Performance-Based Regulation Plan - Rates Application In Bulletin 2022-006, issued on May 26, 2022, the Alberta Utilities Commission (“AUC”) initiated Proceeding 27388 to establish the parameters of the performance-based regulation (“PBR”)...
Link to Decision Summarized Water - Rates Application Strathcona County (“Strathcona”) applied for approval of its amended and restated water supply agreement (the “Agreement”) with the Highway 14 Regional Water Services Commission (“HRWSC”). Decision The AUC approved...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application ENMAX Power Corporation (“EPC”) filed an application with the AUC for approval of its 2023-2025 GTA for the period of January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2025. EPC sought approval of: the forecast revenue...
Link to Decision Summarized Water - Rates Application Strathcona County applied to the AUC for approval of a water supply agreement entered into with the Capital Region Northeast Water Services Commission (“CRNWSC”), which agreement will have a 20-year term, beginning...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application The Alberta Electric System Operator (“AESO”) applied to the AUC for approval of (i) its 2022 deferral account reconciliation (“DAR”) and (ii) changes to the deferral account balances from 2018 to 2022. The...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity/Gas – Rates Application Direct Energy Regulated Services (“DERS”) applied for approval of the 2023 interim rates true-up balances for its default rate tariff (“DRT”) and regulated rate tariff (“RRT”). The interim rates were in...
Link to Decision Summarized Gas - Rates Application Apex Utilities Inc. (“AUI”) applied for approval of its 2023-2024 unaccounted-for gas (“UFG”) Rate Rider E of 1.07 percent and Rate Rider H of 1.09 percent, which represented an increase of 0.05 percent and 0.06...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application ENMAX Energy Corporation (“EEC”) applied for approval of its 2022-2023 non-energy regulated rate option (“RRO”) tariff true-up. Decision The AUC approved, in part, the application from EEC. The AUC denied...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application The Alberta Electric System Operator (“AESO”) applied for approval to settle its 2022 net deferral account surplus (“DAR”) of $18.9 million with market participants on a final basis. In addition, the AESO...
Link to Decision Summarized Water – Rates Application Corix Utilities (Foothills Water) Inc. (“Corix”) provides water utility service that comprises of potable water distribution service to 955 customers (residential and commercial), potable bulk water service at its...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - Rates Application In this general tariff application (“GTA”) TransAlta Corporation (“TransAlta”), in its capacity as manager of the TransAlta Generation Partnership, applied for approval of its 2022-2023 revenue requirement...
Link to Decision Summarized Water - Rates Application EMCOR Utility (2035570 Alberta Ltd.) (“EMCOR”) requested approval of certain items related to its potable water service. It requested approval of: the terms and conditions (“T&Cs”) of service, including rate...
Link to Decision Summarized Electricity - DCG-Credits Application The distribution-connected generators (“DCG”) Campus Energy Partners LP, Kalina Distributed Power Ltd., Lionstooth Energy Inc., and Signalta Resources Ltd., collectively (“KLSC”) appealed the AUC’s...