Ontario is in the process of privatizing Hydro One. How is this best done? What role should restructuring play? And should other privatizations follow? This paper seeks to learn some lessons from experience in the UK and elsewhere over the […]
Introduction In advance of the COP21 climate change meetings in Paris last December, and in concert with the carbon policies announced by the new federal Liberal government, on November 22, 2015 Alberta Premier Rachel Notley advanced several climate related policies […]
On April 7, 2016, the Government of Quebec released its much-anticipated 2030 Energy Policy1 before 500 guests at Montreal’s Place des Arts. Since its election on April 7, 2014, Premier Philippe Couillard’s Liberal Government has issued a steady stream of […]
On March 10, 2016 a panel of the Supreme Court of Canada comprising Chief Justice McLachlin, and Justices Moldaver and Gascon granted leave (with costs in the cause) in Chippewas of the Thames First Nation v Enbridge Pipelines Inc1 (hereafter […]
Due to generation shortages in transmission-constrained areas, PJM capacity auctions were producing high wholesale prices in Maryland. The Maryland Commission designed a three-part solution: (1) Select through competition a wholesale generator to serve in the constrained area. (2) Order Maryland’s […]