On July 17, 2019, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) issued a letter explaining its "refreshed"
approach to stakeholder engagement for its previously-announced
consultation processes on Utility Remuneration and Responding to
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). Among other things, the
OEB's updated approach is intended to "enhance the
opportunity for stakeholder perspectives to inform subsequent steps
in relation to these initiatives following the OEB's transition
to its new structure." The first step will be a stakeholder
conference to be held in September.
As we explained in an earlier post, in March of this year the OEB
announced a concurrent consultation process to look at how the
electricity sector in Ontario should respond to DERs and encourage
utilities and regulated service providers to "embrace
innovation" in their operations and customer service. The
stated aims of the consultation are to drive lower costs, improve
service and offer more consumer choice "by
