Ontario Proposes New Regulations To Support Expanded Net Metering

A series of recent postings to Ontario's Regulatory Registry set out proposed amended or new regulations that are intended to support expanded net metering opportunities in Ontario. These proposals follow the commitment in Ontario's 2017 Long-Term Energy Plan (2017 LTEP) to give customers new ways to participate in renewable electricity generation. As we explained in a previous post, the 2017 LTEP sets out the government's plan to enhance the net metering framework to allow different arrangements, such as third-party ownership of net-metered renewable generation facilities on a customer's premises and "virtual net metering," where a party could treat renewable generation in another location as offsets to the party's own consumption.