The firm has extensive experience in the areas of generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electricity. Our experience includes energy regulation and rates, efficiency and demand-side management, project developments, labour and employment, electricity trading and marketing, tax matters, power purchase and tolling agreements as well as other physical and financial contracts, operating agreements, interconnection arrangements with transmission and distribution grids, and fuel supply and related arrangements.
We have significant regulatory experience before provincial utility boards with respect to all aspects of electricity regulation and rate setting, open access transmission, fuel adjustment mechanisms, conservation, and development approvals on behalf of both industrial ratepayers and utilities, and with respect to National Energy Board (NEB) electricity export permit approvals.
Represented the Towns of Mahone Bay and Antigonish, Berwick Electric Commission and the Riverport Electric Light Commission with individual…
Acted as counsel for Port Hawkesbury Paper LP, Nova Scotia Power's largest customer, in the development of a specific electricity rate.…
Acted as external counsel to Newfoundland Hydro and Nalcor on the development of the $10 billion plus hydro-electric development of Lower…
Aug 22, 2024
In early April 2024, Nova Scotia’s Energy Reform (2024) Act (Bill 404) passed, marking the beginning of a new direction for Nova Scotia’s…
Feb 23, 2024
On January 24, 2024, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court upheld the N.S. Environment Minister’s approval of a proposed windfarm development’s…
Aug 8, 2023
We updated this publication on August 10, 2023. The Nova Scotia commercial net-metering regime just took another step toward implementation.…
Jan 25, 2023
Buzz around the potential of hydrogen as a green energy source has been growing. And the Atlantic Canadian provinces are poised to become a key…
Nov 10, 2022
Updated August 8, 2023. October 2022 amendments to the N.S. Renewable Electricity Regulations ushered in a new Commercial Net-metering regime…
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