The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) released its Final Report on the Regulatory Treatment of Pension and Other Post-employment Benefits Costs (the Report) on September 14, 2017.

That is, E.L.K. Energy's application for approval of rates over five years proposed an initial year of approved base rates followed by four years of Price Cap rate adjustments.

A number of provinces and states (including Ontario, Quebec and California) are members or participants in the Western Climate Initiative...

The Ontario government recently announced its new $170-million Tilbury Battery Storage Project, owned by Quebec company Boralex in partnership with Walpole Island First Nation.

This week, the Government of Ontario joined five other provincial and territorial governments to establish a task force to reduce the reliance on diesel fuel to generate electricity in Canada's remote communities.

As explained in the Court of Appeal's decision, starting around the late 1980s, Ontario Hydro (OH) contracted with private entities (NUGs), including the respondents in this case, to build power generation facilities.

On December 17, 2020, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) issued a letter inviting "smaller electricity distributors" to participate in a meeting to identify opportunities to improve regulatory efficiency for

As we explained in an earlier post, the previous Ontario government appointed an expert panel to conduct a review of the OEB, examine best practices from other jurisdictions and report back about potential changes and improvements.

Now that the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 1998 has passed, the Ontario government has issued an announcement indicating that Ontario natural gas distributors will be required to remove Cap and Trade charges from customer bills as of October 1, 2018.

On July 10, 2018, the Ontario government announced its three "top legislative priorities" for the upcoming summer sitting of the legislature. Two of these have energy implications.

On September 23, 2016, Premier Wynne sent a public Mandate Letter to Minister of Energy Glenn Thibeault, setting out "instructions on priorities."

The Transparency in Gas Pricing Act, 2017 passed second reading on September 21, 2017, and has been referred to the Ontario Legislature's Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.

We have written about a number of steps taken by the Ontario Energy Board to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic (see here and here). The OEB continues to move forward with COVID-19 measures.

As we have previously discussed (here and here), the Ontario Government plans to implement a cap and trade program as of 2017.

Geothermal energy is starting to heat up in Ontario. Once considered too costly for domestic household use, recent policy moves by the province have demonstrated political – and financial – support for an expansion of geothermal HVAC technologies in the coming decades.

Presumably, details about how the proposals and initiatives set out in the Environment Plan will be released in the coming months.

In the Climate Change Action Plan, the Ontario government committed to implement a renewable fuel standard that would reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) from gasoline by 5% by 2020.

On July 3, 2019, the Ontario government announced plans to conduct a second cannabis retail licence lottery process.

On April 16, 2018, the B.C. Supreme Court issued a follow-up to the continuing saga of Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack, where Google was ordered to de-index counterfeiter's websites from the internet.

On May 1, 2025, TPG, a global asset management firm with US$251 billion in assets under management, announced the launch of TPG Sports, a new investment fund focused on supporting companies...