Utility Remuneration and Responding to Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Consultation Proceedings (the Proceedings) and the Ontario Energy Board Decision on Cost Eligibility

Our main concern with the current proceedings is in how the costs and benefits of DER integration will be determined. The recommendations put forward early in 2019 for Commercial and Industrial rate design were quick to identify additional costs of DERs and proposed introducing a provincial capacity reserve charge designed to protect utility revenues.