Independence

• Best practices to identify and prevent actual or perceived regulatory capture
• Individual and institutional bias
• Commissioners and narratives/opinions and independence
• Advocacy and independence – regulators and relationships with government policy, opening the discussion re: Crowns
• private and acknowledging directives/policyDefining the public interest
• Safeguards for maintaining integrity and independence of hearing process

Quality decision-making

• Defining the public interest and ensuring a regulatory “level playing field”
• Regulating for results versus efficient proceedings
• Consistency in decision-making and peer review of decisions (e.g., Consolidated Bathurst processes)
• Role of Chair versus commissioners on panels
• Balancing perspectives on panels
• Evidence based versus opinion based adjudication
• Working with tribunal staff

Measurement

• Qualitative and quantitative assessments of regulatory performance
• Advanced topics related to facilities approvals
• Advanced topics and considerations in conservation & demand side management
• Rural and remote communities
• Cybersecurity & artificial intelligence
• Standards, resilience, & reliability
• NERC, CSA & Evolution of markets and traditional utility assets
• Determining how to equitably divide revenue requirement amongst ratepayer classes
• Design of rates and charges to collect revenue from each class
• Load Retention, Riders & Deferrals
• Approaches to address affordability