Performance standards for processing applications

The Ontario Energy Board has adopted new performance standards for processing rate applications to take effect April 1, 2019. See letter issued March 11, 2019 . The new standards better reflect the time required by the OEB to process an application and will provide greater certainty and predictability to applicants.

The OEB’s current cycle time standards for rate applications are determined by hearing type (i.e. oral or written). These standards will also be revised to reflect the size of the revenue requirement rather than the hearing type.  

The new performance standards will measure three indicators:

• Time elapsed from issuance of completeness letter to the issuance of Procedural Order No. 1 (PO#1)
• Time elapsed from close of the record to the issuance of an OEB decision
• Total cycle time – from issuance of completeness letter to final decision 

Click the name of the performance standard in the table below to view the schedule.

	Elapsed Calendar Days
	PO#1	Decision	Total Cycle Time
Cost-Based >$500M Revenue Requirement	60	90	355
Cost-Based <$500M Revenue Requirement	35	60	230
Complex Incentive Rate-setting Mechanism  (or other stand-alone request)	35	60	165
Accounting Order (or other stand-alone request)	35	30	125

The new performance standards apply to rate applications filed as of April 1, 2019.

For all other types of applications, the current performance standards will continue to apply as follows: 

Elapsed time from completeness letter to decision (calendar days)

Municipal franchise or certificate

Oral Hearing	250
Written Hearing	90

Leave to construct or gas storage designation

Oral Hearing	210
Written Hearing	130

Well drilling

Oral Hearing	210
Written Hearing	130

Licence – Individual application

Oral Hearing	210
Written Hearing	130
Written Hearing – One Step Notice	90 (60 days for feed-in tariff applications)

Mergers, acquisitions, amalgamations and divestitures
A review of a SECTION 80 or 81 notice of proposal under SECTION 82
(generation, transmission, distribution ownership prohibition)

Oral Hearing	220
Written Hearing	170

Section 86 (change of ownership or control of systems)

Oral Hearing	180
Written Hearing	130

Quarterly rate adjustment filings – gas

Written Review

21

General application

Motion to Review - Oral Hearing	170
Motion to Review - Written Hearing	120

 

 

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