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A MULTI-CHANNEL STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION PROCESS FOR TRANSMISSION DEREGULATION

Robin Gregory, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Thorne and Gordon Butte

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Deregulating Ontario's energy market required designing a rate structure for transmission costs that previously had been bundled with other electricity services. The Ontario Hydro Networks Company (now called Hydro One Networks, or “Hydro One”) owns and operates the transmission lines. It sought input from a full spectrum of stakeholders in preparing a proposed rate structure for submission to the regulator, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB). Securing that input meant accommodating great differences in stakeholders’ familiarity with the (often highly technical) ...

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