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The OEB has announced its phased approach to providing customers with access to electricity distribution capacity maps in response to the November 2023 Letter of Direction. In the initial phase, licensed distributors are expected to post capacity information by March 3, 2025.

The OEB holiday timeout period will be from December 21, 2024, to January 5, 2025. During this period, the OEB will generally avoid issuing decisions and documents that require immediate action from recipients except in instances where it could impact the implementation of January 1st rates or time...

The OEB has published the Activity and Program-based Benchmarking (APB) – 2023 Unit Cost Report, which aims to encourage continuous improvement by regulated electricity distributors. The report includes unit cost results for 2023 based on the latest Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements (RRRs)...

The OEB is launching a consultation to advance its performance-based approach to rate regulation. The objective of this initiative is to develop ways to strengthen the link between what electricity distributors earn and the achievement of outcomes consumers value, such as cost-effectiveness...

The OEB has issued a letter describing an initiative to implement a requirement for utilities to periodically submit an independent cyber-security assessment based on the Ontario Cyber Security Framework (OCSF). The proposal would require utilities to have a qualified third-party assess their...

The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Natural Gas Contracts for Enbridge Gas Inc. and EPCOR Natural Gas Limited Partnership valid from October 1 - December 31, 2024.

The OEB has updated its Innovation Handbook with new OEB policies and related materials that support energy sector innovation. The Handbook is intended to serve as a reference guide for sector innovators, provide awareness of the OEB’s work to date to support innovation and assist utilities in...

The OEB is releasing an updated set of Open Data files containing 2023 RRR data which include: Activity and Program-based Benchmarking Related Reporting Dataset for Electricity Distributors, Third-Party Net Metering Dataset for Electricity Distributors, and Embedded Generation Facilities Dataset...

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is pleased to announce that we have partnered with Indspire, a national charity dedicated to investing in the education of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, to establish and administer the OEB Indigenous Scholarship.

The OEB has released an updated variance settlement factor that is to be used by electricity distributors to calculate a one-time credit or charge for consumers who choose to stop purchasing electricity through the Regulated Price Plan. This factor is called the "Final RPP Variance Settlement Factor...

The OEB has updated Chapter 3 of the Filing Requirements for 2025 rate applications, adding references to Non-Wires Solutions Guidelines in the sections relating to the Lost Revenue Adjustment Mechanism Variance Account and the Incremental Capital Module.

The OEB has posted the updated electricity supply mix data information for 2023. As per Ontario Regulation 416/99 made under the OEB Act, and the OEB’s Directive, this information is required to be disclosed to Ontario consumers.

The OEB has issued a letter regarding the filing of IESO System Impact Assessment (SIA) reports in electricity leave to construct applications. Effective April 4, 2024, applicants are no longer required to include SIA appendices in order to meet the criteria outlined in Chapter 4 of the OEB’s Filing...

The OEB has published materials from its February 2024 Webinar and Q&A Session on OEB’s Accounting Order (003-2023) for the Establishment of a Deferral Account to Record Incremental Cloud Computing Arrangement Implementation Costs. The materials include responses to questions received during the...

The Ontario Energy Board is commencing a hearing to review the cost of capital rate-regulated electricity and gas utilities can recover through rates. The hearing will also address the OEB’s prescribed interest rates and matters relating to the OEB’s Cloud Computing Deferral Account.

The OEB has released an updated variance settlement factor that is to be used by electricity distributors to calculate a one-time credit or charge for consumers who choose to stop purchasing electricity through the Regulated Price Plan. This factor is called the "Final RPP Variance Settlement Factor...

The Province of Ontario has recently appointed Carla Carmichael to the OEB’s Board of Directors. Ms. Carmichael is a senior leader with more than 30 years of experience in financial, commercial and strategic risk management, as well as infrastructure project planning and execution. She brings to the...

The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB its State of the Market Report 2022 on Ontario's wholesale electricity market.

The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) from Wellington North Power Inc., an electricity distributor. The AVC responds to non-compliance with the requirement to implement Green Button in Ontario by November 1, 2023.

The OEB has issued a Notice of Proposal to Amend the Distribution System Code regarding the connection of non-residential electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. These proposed amendments are intended to create a standardized and streamlined process for connecting charging facilities that...

The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Niagara Peninsula Energy Inc., an electricity distributor. The Assurance responds to non-compliance with its rate orders related to overcharging customers as a result of a billing system error.

The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Natural Gas Contracts for Kitchener Utilities valid from November 1, 2023.