Ontario Power Generation Succeeds In OEB Review Motion

On January 28, 2016, the Ontario Energy Board issued a decision on a review motion from Ontario Power Generation (OPG) that effectively reversed part of the decision under review. The OEB panel on the review motion found that the OEB hearing panel had not properly interpreted some of the evidence at an OPG hearing and reduced a previously ordered disallowance by more than $20 million.

The OEB's original decision in the OPG case (discussed in a previous post) set the "payment amounts" for generation from nuclear and hydroelectric facilities for 2014 and 2015. A main point of contention in the case was around whether all the costs for the "Niagara Tunnel Project" (associated with upgrades to hydroelectric facilities around Niagara Falls) would be included in rate base. The OEB originally disallowed part of these costs ($88 million of the claimed $1,452 million).