Adjudication Reporting Dashboard
We hold ourselves accountable to the sector we serve, the customers who use it and to each other through integrity of governance, clarity of process and independence of decision making. As part of being accountable, we are therefore reporting on adjudicative performance through this dashboard.
Our Adjudicative Reporting Dashboard provides regulated entities with more transparency into our adjudicative process, in particular the metrics and targets we have set to measure the efficiency of our decision-making. First published in 2021, the dashboard is updated twice per year.
What follows is a summary of achievements against our adjudicative targets for Q1 and Q2 of Fiscal 2025-2026.
Current Report
Fiscal 2025-2026: Mid-Year Results (April 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025)
- The OEB issued 109 decisions in Q1 and Q2 of Fiscal 2025-2026 – 75% of panel decisions and 97% of Delegated Authority decisions were issued in accordance with the total cycle time performance standards (the panel target is 85% while the Delegated Authority target is 95%). Several applications whose metrics are included in this mid-year Dashboard and which have missed certain of the metrics are carry over proceedings commenced in the prior fiscal year.
- Of all decisions issued, 74% were issued more than 14 days in advance of the decision metric date.
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July 2025 was the month during which most decisions were issued by the OEB. Twenty-four decisions were issued this month, or 22 % of all decisions.
Total Decisions Issued
The majority of decisions (85%) issued by the OEB were heard by Delegated Authority. This is consistent with historical trends.
72% of the decisions issued in Q1 and Q2 of Fiscal 2025-2026 were for applications related to electricity.
58% of all the decisions issued were for Licence applications, Facilities comprised 21% of decisions, followed by Rates (15%) and Mergers, Amalgamations, Acquisitions and Divestitures (6%).
Decision Issuance Spectrum
In addition to monitoring whether a decision is issued on time, 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.
Key Documents
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 Q1 and Q2 of Fiscal 2025-2026.
Average Time for Procedural Order No. 1 (PO#1), Decision Writing and Total Cycle
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 below 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 caused in part by the need for additional time to address a non-standard intervention request in a natural gas leave to construct application (it was issued 10 days after the metric).
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: Accounting Order performance standard exceeded the metric of 30 days. This was driven by two accounting order applications that were transferred from Delegated Authority to panels of Commissioners due to the complexity of the issues. Additional time was required for finalization and issuance of decisions.
The average Decision Writing Time for the Facilities: Complex performance standard exceeded the metric of 60 days. This was primarily driven by a decision to coordinate the issuance of two natural gas Municipal Franchise renewal applications that shared common issues. It resulted in missing this metric by 88 days (on average).
This graph provides the average time from a complete application to the issuance of the decision and compares it to the performance standard.
The average Total Cycle Time for the Rates: >$500M exceeded the metric of 355 days. This was primarily driven by a proceeding that required additional procedural steps and extensions to deadlines to address non-standard issues. This was the only proceeding in the Rates: >$500M category.