Energy and Utility Regulation in Alberta: Like Oil and Water?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since establishing the Alberta Board of Public Utility Commissioners (PUB) in 1915, Alberta's approach to energy resource and utility regulation has evolved in response to various pressures and perceived needs.For the most part, regulation of the energy resource and utility sectors has been carried out separately and independently by sector specific entities.Energy resource and utility regulation continued to be carried out independently one from the other even during the period of time when those functions were merged under the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (AEUB).At the end of 2007, the AEUB was dissolved and separate energy resource and utilities regulators -the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) and the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) -were reconstituted.This most recent evolutionary step in energy resource and utility regulation in Alberta raises many questions and while this paper does not provide conclusive answers, it is intended to provide a basis for better understanding the respective roles of energy and utility regulation in Alberta.To that end, this paper begins with a brief, high level discussion of the theory of regulation then provides the following: an overview of the history of energy resource and utility regulation in Alberta; a description of key phases in energy resource and utility regulation in Alberta; an assessment of the significant characteristics of the energy resource and utility regulators as they existed at the time of the 1995 merger; an examination of the policy and regulatory context for the 1995 merger of the PUB and the ERCB as well as for the 2008 split of the AEUB; and, finally, a discussion of some areas of potential strength and weakness in the current two-board model.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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