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Dec 17, 2020

Ron Clark Comments on the Ontario Generation Contract Review Report

By Ron W. Clark

The Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines issued a directive to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) in November 2019 to review existing generation contracts and identify changes that might result in cost savings. In response to the directive, Charles River, a consulting firm in Boston, was retained by the IESO to conduct the review and prepare a report. The report, which is available on the IESO’s website, was provided to the Minister of Energy, along with the IESO’s assessment of the findings, in February 2020 and released in August 2020.

In a recent article published in Energy Regulation Quarterly, Ron Clark provides commentary on the recommendations made by Charles River. Click here to read the article.

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Ron Clark’s energy practice involves counselling stakeholder groups, retailers, distributors and generators on legislative and policy matters relating to electricity markets. He has been retained in connection with power procurement arrangements, development of generation and cogeneration facilities and the Ontario government’s clean energy supply and renewable energy supply RFPs and contracts. He has been involved in electricity restructuring in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Albania, Macedonia and the Regional Southeast European market. He has also chaired the Ontario Energy Association’s Task Force on Ontario’s proposed electricity legislation. Ron is the author of Regulation and Governance of Municipally-Owned Corporations in Ontario (Lexis/Nexis), a co-author of Energy Regulation in Ontario: Electricity (Lexis/Nexis) and has been recognized as a leading lawyer in Energy by The Legal 500 Canada, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.

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