AUTHOR : Philip Raphals (for the Helios Centre)

TITLE : La contribution du projet Suroît à la sécurité des approvisionnements en électricité d'Hydro-Québec Production (The Suroît Project's Contribution to the Security of Hydro-Québec Production's Energy Supply)

Régie de l'énergie, R-3526-04 (advisory hearing on Suroît gas plant)

 | 2004 | 44 pp. | 229 kb |  download

AUTHOR : Philip Raphals

TITLE : La sécurité des approvisionnements patrimoniaux dans le cadre du Plan d'approvisionnement d'Hydro-Québec (The Security of Heritage Energy Supply in Hydro-Québec's Supply Plan) (for RNCREQ)

Régie de l'énergie, R-3470-01, phase 2 (HQ Supply Plan)

 | 2002 | 26 pp. |  662 kb |  download

AUTHORS : Philip Raphals and Robert McCullough (for RNCREQ)

TITLE : Testimony concerning an assessment of a hydroelectric utility's reliability criteria.

TOPICS COVERED : Hydrological analysis, reliability criteria, expected inflows, climate change, demand variability, lead times, critical periods, adequacy of supply, confidentiality.

 | 2000 | 19 pp | 223kb |  download

AUTHORS : Philip Raphals et Philippe Dunsky (pour RNCREQ)

TITLE : L’attribution d’une quote-part à la filière de la petite production hydroélectrique – Principes, méthodes et considérations (mandat d'étude de 1999 du gouvernement) (Testimony concerning a set-aside for independent small hydropower generators (Government's 1999 study mandate).

TOPICS COVERED : Set-asides, criteria, resource planning, regulatory treatment, economic value, competitive bidding, costs, environmental impacts, allocation of roles and responsibilities, detailed criteria, size, green power, conservation flow, multi-criteria decision analysis.

 | 1999 | 63 pp | 320kb |  download

AUTHOR : Philip Raphals (for RNCREQ)

TITLE : La sécurité des approvisionnements en énergie au Québec (Testimony concerning a hydroelectric utility's reliability criteria and operations.)

TOPICS COVERED: Seasonal demand, exceptional means, rainfall variability, sensitivity analysis, water stocks, reservoir levels, theoretical productibility, surplus sales.

 | 1998 | 19 pp | 372kb |  download

AUTHORS : Philip Dunsky and David Nichols (for RNCREQ)

TITLE : Testimony concerning a gas utility's first ever performance-based ratemaking proposal and its environmental consequences (Gaz Métropolitain's 1998 proposal).

TOPICS COVERED : Performance-based regulation (PBR), incentives, cost cutting, service quality indices, environmental indices, externalities, TRC test, social cost test, energy efficiency, fuel switching, cost recovery, lost revenue recovery, revenue-sales decoupling, shareholder incentives, alternative solutions.

 | 1998 | 134 pp | 559kb |  download