Canada's Regulators Gather at CAMPUT 2019, Part 2
CAMPUT 2019
Conversations with eastern and midwestern Canadian regulators
Law & Lawyers
Manitoba Public Utilities Board
CAMPUT 2019
"We’re one of the smallest rate regulators in North America. We have eleven PUB Board Members, including a Chairman. The Chair is the only full-time member."
New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board
CAMPUT 2019
"New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces and the only officially bilingual province in Canada. Our Board operates in both languages, including the issuance of decisions."
Nova Scotia Utility & Review Board
CAMPUT 2019
By 2020, we have to achieve 40% renewable energy in electricity sales. 15 years ago, 80% of our generation was thermal, mostly coal, natural gas, and a small bit of oil."
Ontario Energy Board
CAMPUT 2019
"The biggest issue, for the larger utilities that have much more intense capital pressures, is aging infrastructure."
Prince Edward Island Regulatory & Appeals Commission
CAMPUT 2019
"85% of the heating in Prince Edward Island is by furnace oil, and the rest is electricity."
National Energy Board
CAMPUT 2019
"Could a province prevent a pipeline being built? We’re living this right now with the
Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the matter has not settled yet."
Engineering Offshore Wind and LTE Networks
Burns & McDonnell
Conversations with Tony Appleton, Bruce Albright and Matt Olson, Burns & McDonnell.
Tony Appleton on Offshore Wind
Engineering the Future
"We’re talking thousands of jobs being potentially created on that eastern seaboard."
Matt Olson and Bruce Albright on LTE Networks
Engineering the Future
Utilities need a communications infrastructure that is as reliable or even more reliable than the grid.