Company: ENBSF
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000895728-25-000006
Chunk: 200

Company: ENBRIDGE INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 200
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 amended Notice of Appeal in December 2024 (Amended Appeal). The Amended Appeal focused on two aspects of the Phase 1 Decision: asset class average useful lives for depreciation purposes, and equity thickness. In January 2024, Enbridge Gas Ontario filed a Notice of Motion with the OEB requesting the OEB to review and vary the Phase 1 Decision which was subsequently amended in May 2024 (Amended Motion). The Amended Motion focused on two aspects of the Phase 1 Decision: asset class average useful lives for depreciation purposes, and the recoverability of integration capital. In October 2024, the OEB issued a decision on the Amended Motion and determined that only the issue of integration capital met the threshold to warrant a review. We are currently awaiting an OEB decision on the issue of integration capital.

In May 2024, Bill 165, the Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, received royal assent, giving the Government of Ontario time-limited authority to set the revenue horizon for small volume customers, effectively reversing that aspect of the OEB's Phase 1 Decision. Regulations are now in place setting the revenue horizon for new customer connections to 40 years.

In November 2024, the OEB issued its Decision approving the Phase 2 Partial Settlement Proposal (Phase 2 Settlement). The Phase 2 Settlement establishes a price cap IR rate setting mechanism to be used for establishing rates for 2025 – 2028. The price cap mechanism will establish new rates each year through an annual base rate adjustment to migrate an incremental $50 million in capitalized overheads to operating and maintenance costs, annual base rate escalation at inflation less a 0.28% productivity factor, annual updates for certain costs to be passed through to customers, and where applicable, it will provide for the recovery of material unexpected events and discrete incremental capital investments beyond those that can be funded through base rates. The price cap mechanism includes the continuation and establishment of certain deferral and variance accounts, as well as an earnings sharing mechanism that requires Enbridge Gas Ontario to share equally with customers any earnings in excess of 100 basis points over the allowed return on equity (ROE), and 90% of any earnings in excess of 300 basis points over the allowed ROE. Issues not addressed as part of the Phase 2 Settlement proceeded to hearing in December 2024 and a decision is expected in the second quarter of 2025. 

Gas Distribution and Storage - US

Our US utilities operations are regulated by the Ohio Commission,