Adjudicative reporting dashboard

The majority of decisions (76%) issued by the OEB were heard by Delegated Authority. This is consistent with historical trends. 

68% of the decisions issued in Fiscal 2024-2025 were for applications related to electricity.

41% of all the decisions issued were for Licence applications, Rates comprised 32% of decisions, followed by Facilities (25%) and Mergers, Amalgamations, Acquisitions and Divestitures (2%).
 

In addition to monitoring whether a decision is issued on time or late, the OEB also monitors the degree to which decisions were issued early or late relative to the total cycle time decision metric date established by the applicable performance standard. This Decision Issuance Spectrum highlights the fact that 74% of decisions issued this reporting period were issued more than two weeks in advance of the total cycle time metric date. Two key drivers of this are that (a) licence applications tend to be mechanistic and therefore adjudicated under delegated authority and (b) complete settlement proposals were filed in several rates proceedings, which generally reduces the amount of time required for decision writing by Commissioners.

The OEB issues many documents aside from decisions each month. Key Documents refers to all other documents that are issued by the OEB but are not a final Decision and Order (e.g., Notice, Procedural Order, Letter to Industry, etc.). The OEB issued 41 Key Documents on average each month of Fiscal 2024-2025.

The OEB has committed to report on the performance of key application milestones for applications heard by panels of Commissioners for major application types. The three graphs illustrate the performance for various application types relative to the performance standard for:

This graph provides the average time from receipt of a complete application to the issuance of PO#1 and compares this to the performance standard. For complex facilities applications, the average time to issue PO#1 exceeded the performance standard. This was the result of additional time being required to address non-standard intervention requests and other issues in two applications under the Municipal Franchises Act.

This graph provides the average time from the close of the record to the issuance of the decision and compares this to the performance standard.

The average decision writing time for the Rates <$500M performance standard is lower than the metric of 60 calendar days because several applications heard under this performance standard achieved full settlement proposals that were accepted by the OEB. Full settlements generally reduce the amount of time required for decision writing relative to the performance standard.

This graph provides the average time from a complete application to the issuance of the decision and compares it to the performance standard. As noted above, several facility applications filed under the Municipal Franchises Act dealt with non-standard issues and exceeded the Total Cycle Time metric.