Who Bears It?
Facilitated by Brian Dingwall
Ontario’s policy direction emphasizes affordability and reliability, yet the economic cost of delay is rarely quantified in regulatory or investment decisions. This session reframes delay as a measurable system cost — not an administrative by-product.
Why this matters now
Public funding, industrial strategy, and energy transition programs assume timely delivery. The absence of a cost-of-delay framework distorts both risk allocation and capital signals.
Working Problem
How should Ontario quantify and assign the financial, economic, and societal cost of deferred capacity and modernization — and how should those costs influence regulatory and investment decisions?
Session Outcome
A defensible framework for cost-of-delay accounting and risk-sharing design.
Session Format & Logistics
- 5 minute expert framing
- 25 minute focused technical and investment discussion
- 30 minute facilitated, active problem-solving dialogue
Date: [TBD]
Time: [TBD]
Delivery: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
Audience: OECA Members Only
This session is built directly from OECA Symposium contributions and is intended to produce investable insight and policy-relevant positions — not general updates.