ONTARIO
ENERGY
BOARD
FILE NO.:
EB-2012-0031
VOLUME:
1
DATE:
November 8, 2012
BEFORE:
Paula Conboy
Presiding Member
Cynthia Chaplin
Member and Vice-Chair
Emad Elsayed
Member
EB-2012-0031
THE ONTARIO ENERGY BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF the Ontario Energy Board Act
1998, S.O. 1998, c.15, (Schedule B);
AND IN THE MATTER OF a review of an application
filed by Hydro One Networks Inc. for an order or
orders
approving
a
transmission
revenue
requirement and rates and other charges for the
transmission of electricity for 2013 and 2014.
Hearing held at 2300 Yonge Street,
25th Floor, Toronto, Ontario,
on Thursday, November 8th, 2012,
commencing at 9:33 a.m.
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BEFORE:
PAULA CONBOY
Presiding Member
CYNTHIA CHAPLIN
Member and Vice-Chair
EMAD ELSAYED
Member
A P P E A R A N C E S
MAUREEN HELT
LJUBA DJURDJEVIC
Board Counsel
HAROLD THIESSEN
Board Staff
ANITA VARJACIC
ALLAN COWAN
Hydro One Networks Inc. (HONI)
DAVID CROCKER
Association of Major Power
Consumers of Ontario (AMPCO)
TOM BRETT
Building Owners and Managers
Association
ANDREW TAYLOR
Goldcorp.
RICHARD STEPHENSON
Power Workers' Union (PWU)
MARK RUBENSTEIN
School Energy Coalition (SEC)
MICHAEL BUONAGURO
Vulnerable Energy Consumers'
Coalition (VECC)
I N D E X
O F
P R O C E E D I N G S
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DECISION ON SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
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DECISION ON SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
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MS. CONBOY:
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As a result of this morning's proceedings, there are
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no objections to the settlement agreement, other than the
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unsettled issue of the export transmission service rate.
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Hydro One has agreed to provide further details
Thank you, everyone.
Please be seated.
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regarding the Red Lake TS, and Goldcorp has agreed to
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withdraw its objection to the settlement agreement in
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advance of receiving that information.
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The Board accepts the settlement agreement.
The Board
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recognizes that this is the first time that a settlement
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agreement has been achieved in a Hydro One transmission
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rate proceeding, and the Board sees this as a positive
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development.
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The Board also renders the following decisions.
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With respect to the COPE report, on November 2nd Hydro
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One filed a letter with the Board indicating that in light
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of the settlement achieved in this proceeding, Hydro One
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would update the record in this proceeding to remove all
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evidence that references the Canadian Electricity
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Association survey, specifically the CAE's transmission
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COPE 2011 comprehensive annual report.
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Hydro One also reported that it and Schools Energy
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Coalition agreed that production of the COPE report is no
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longer required.
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Thus, Hydro One and Schools Energy Coalition on
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consent requested that the Board make an order varying its
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order -- that the Board vary its order.
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In light of the approved settlement agreement, the
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Board will vary its order of October 23rd, 2012, to no
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longer require production of the report.
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The Board orders Hydro One to make the appropriate
revisions to its filed evidence.
With respect to interim rates, Hydro One has requested
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that its existing 2012 rates for the transmission of
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electricity approved under proceeding EB-2011-0268 be
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declared interim effective January 1st, 2013.
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The Board approves this request and orders that
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existing 2012 rates be made interim effective January 1st,
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2013.
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With respect to Issue 24, connection procedures, Hydro
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One is directed to file the revised transmission connection
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procedures document when filing the draft rate order.
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The Board orders that Hydro One file its draft rate
order no later than November 30th, 2012.
The intervenors and Board Staff shall file any
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submissions on the draft rate order one week after the
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filing by Hydro One, and then Hydro One has a subsequent
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week to file any response to intervenor and Board Staff's
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comments on the draft rate order.
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Does anybody have any questions?
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MS. VARJACIC:
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but I have a correction to make.
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MS. CONBOY:
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MS. VARJACIC:
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Madam Chair, I don't have a question,
Okay.
A clarification.
In the settlement
agreement in appendix A, we have provided the Board with a
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list of approvals that were being sought.
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In the editing process, a piece of that is missing.
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For greater clarity, point 8 requested approval of Hydro
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One's Green Energy Plan, and we had agreed to clarify that
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was for 2013 and 2014.
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MS. CONBOY:
Thank you.
Nobody has any questions
about that?
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Thank you very much.
We will note that.
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MR. TAYLOR:
Madam Chair?
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MS. CONBOY:
Mr. Taylor?
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MR. TAYLOR:
Could the order also include some
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language regarding the timing in which Hydro One has to
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provide the information that Goldcorp requested?
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perhaps some sort of recourse for Goldcorp if they don't
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provide the information?
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MS. CONBOY:
And
Sure, if you will just give me a minute
on the second one.
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[Board Panel confer]
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MS. CONBOY:
Mr. Taylor, we will include under the
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Board orders that Hydro One provide further details
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regarding the Red Lake TS by close of business Monday.
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And at that point, Mr. Taylor, it does become a Board
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order, so the recourse would be the same as with any Board
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order.
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information was not provided by that time.
It would become a compliance matter if the
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MR. TAYLOR:
Okay.
Thank you.
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MS. CONBOY:
Thank you.
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If there are no further questions, we are adjourned.
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Thank you very much, everybody.
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