Canada: Utilities

Ontario is fundamentally restructuring water and wastewater service delivery through the Water and Wastewater Public Corporations Act, 2025, moving services from municipal departments into arm's-length public corporations. With the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing now actively soliciting municipal expressions of interest, this framework presents both strategic opportunities and significant governance implications that municipalities must understand and engage with now, even before the legislation...

In Powell River Energy Inc. v. British Columbia (Utilities Commission), 2026 BCCA 93, the British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from a reconsideration decision of the British...

As digital transformation accelerates for businesses, individuals and governments, the right infrastructure is becoming critical to support the technology on which the world relies.

Currently, Ontario has approximately 61 municipal electricity utilities (MEUs) that provide local electricity distribution services to municipalities across the province.

Canadian corporations are turning to renewable virtual power purchase agreements as an emerging component of their energy procurement strategies.

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) recently announced that it will review and evaluate its Incremental Capital Module (ICM) policy.

The concept of deploying nuclear reactors as a carbon-free source of energy is gaining momentum in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada. This article explores recent promising developments...

This is an update to our previous blog, Regulatory Considerations for Renewable Natural Gas Projects in Alberta, published on July 21, 2022.

Drawing on the successes of last year's event, the second conference collaboration between the Association of Power Producers of Ontario (APPrO) and the Ontario Energy Association (OEA)...