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The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB its State of the Market Report 2023 on Ontario's wholesale electricity market.

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 preparing applications that propose innovative approaches to meeting customer or system needs.

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 Broken Down by Facility Type for Electricity Distributors. Additionally, the OEB is also pleased to announce the integration of RRR data for electricity transmitters into the Open Data platform. This enhancement allows users to access electricity transmitter data alongside the already available electricity distributor data. 

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" and is updated on the OEB website monthly.

The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Natural Gas Contracts for Utilities Kingston valid from August 1 - October 31, 2024.

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 is inviting stakeholders to a meeting on September 9, 2024, to discuss two proposed alternative price plans for Class B consumers – which include mid-size commercial and light industrial businesses – that aren’t on the Regulated Price Plan. During this meeting, the OEB will provide background information on the development of these price plans and discuss how they may help businesses better manage their energy costs and reduce system costs.

The OEB has issued a letter providing an issues list, based on stakeholders’ input, that will be addressed in the Transmission Connections Review. The OEB has identified two streams and makes a call for working group nominations to address the issues related to each stream.

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" and is updated on the OEB website monthly.

Today, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) issued a revised Handbook to Electricity Distributor and Transmitter Consolidations: Rate-making Considerations and Filing Requirements for Consolidation Applications (2024 MAADs Handbook, originally published June 18, 2024). 

In addition to correcting a few minor typographical errors, the revised 2024 MAADs Handbook also clarifies that a distributor rebasing in a period of 5 years or less (and not just less than 5 years) is required to provide a report on the rebasing progress at its first rebasing application post-consolidation.