This site documents background material produced and used to develop the draft Distribution PBR Rate Handbook issued by Board staff and the subject of the RP-1999-0034 proceeding.

Four Task Forces, composed of Board staff and consultants to the Board staff along with industry representatives and other stakeholders, conducted initial research for the development of a Performance-Based Regulation regime for Ontario's electrical distribution utilities. The Terms of Reference, minutes, and final recommendations are documented in the following pages. The findings of these Task Forces were extensively relied on to develop the Board staff-proposed draft Rate Handbook considered in the RP-1999-0034 proceeding.

• Cap Mechanism Task Force Documents
• Yardstick Grouping Task Force Documents
• Implementation Task Force Documents
• Distribution Rates Task Force Documents

Other Reference Material for the RP-1999-0034 Proceeding

• Standard Application of Rates Manual

• Draft Electric Distribution Rate Handbook (June 30, 1999)

• Supplement to the Ontario Energy Board Staff Proposed Electric Distribution Rate Handbook (August 12, 1999)
• Table 4.2 of the August 12, 1999 Supplement
• Questions and Answers from seminars on the Ontario Energy Board Staff Proposed Electric Distribution Rate Handbook - July 13-23, 1999

• A discussion Paper on the Determination of Return on Equity and Return on Rate Base for Electric Distribution Utilities in Ontario

• Productivity and Price Performance for Electric Distributors in Ontario

• Corrected New Appendix C to the report Productivity and Price Performance for Electric Distributors in Ontario. Background data on IPI and TFP (September 16, 1999)
  • Average Annual Productivity Performance of LDCs Segmented by Average Growth in Output; Comparison of the Average and Median of Average Annual Productivity Growth of all LDCs
• New Table 4.2 of the report "Productivity and Price Performance for Electric Distributors in Ontario" (Addendum, September 10, 1999)

• Background Materials to the OEB Staff draft Rate Handbook (August 27, 1999) This list updates Exhibit No.3 filed in the Hearing of the Motion in RP-1999-0034 on August 24, 1999.