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Ontario gas balancing is driven by weather-sensitive load, transport deliverability, and storage optionality.
Operational risk is concentrated in cold-duration events when both daily demand and intra-day variability rise.
Peak-Day Gas Balance
The condition where available firm receipts, storage withdrawal, and operational flexibility are sufficient to serve expected and stress-case demand on a high-load day.
⚡ Forecast error during peak conditions can be more material than average-day commodity price risk.
Important analytical dimensions include:
With late-day colder revisions, a utility may rebalance nominations and increase storage withdrawal while monitoring imbalance exposure and pressure margins.
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Last Updated: 2026-03-28