The Ontario Energy Board has released its Report to the Minister of
Energy, Northern Development and Mines and to the Associate
Minister of Energy on Potential Projects to Expand Access to
Natural Gas Distribution. The Report was the result of a letter
dated December 12, 2019, in which the Minister, with the support of
the Associate Minister, required the OEB to report back to the
Ministry with information about natural gas expansion projects that
the government could consider as potential candidates for financial
support.
The December 2019 letter set out a number of
matters to be considered by the OEB. These included the number of
customers that would be connected by each project, the total cost
of each project, the amount of financial support needed for each
project to meet the OEB's profitability threshold, the
proposed construction start date and construction period for each
project (given the government's focus on projects reasonably
expected to start
