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Volume 55, No. 3

17/2012

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 14, 2012

B.C. Reg. 17/2012 , deposited February 3, 2012, pursuant to the UTILITIES COMMISSION ACT [section 3]. Order in Council 35/2012, approved and ordered February 2, 2012.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that Special Direction No. 10 to the British Columbia Utilities Commission, B.C. Reg. 245/2007, is amended as set out in the attached schedule.

— S. BOND, Attorney General ; I. CHONG, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 1 of Special Direction No. 10 to the British Columbia Utilities Commission, B.C. Reg. 245/2007, is amended

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a) in subsection (1) by repealing the definition of "critical water conditions" and substituting the following:

"average water conditions" means the average stream flows occurring within the authority's historical record; ,

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b) in subsection (1) in the definition of "firm energy capability" by striking out " critical water conditions " and substituting " average water conditions ", and

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c) in subsection (2) by striking out " 2006 " and substituting " 2011 " and by striking out " 42 600 " and substituting " 48 200 ".

Section 3 is amended

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a) by striking out " fixing rates " and substituting " setting rates ",

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b) in paragraph (

a) by striking out "

section 45 " and substituting "

section 46 ", and

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c) by repealing paragraphs (

b) and (e).

3 The following

section is added:

Interim planning criteria

(1) In deciding whether to issue a certificate to the authority under

section 46 of the Act for the Ruskin Dam and Powerhouse Upgrade Project, the commission must assume that the authority requires, in order to meet its electricity supply obligations, the 334 gigawatt hours per year of firm energy and 114 megawatts of dependable capacity that the project is capable of delivering by 2018 and continuing to deliver over the expected life of the project.

(2) In deciding whether to issue a certificate to the authority under

section 46 of the Act for the John Hart Generating Station Replacement Project, the commission must assume that the authority requires, in order to meet its electricity supply obligations, the 806 gigawatt hours per year of firm energy and 128 megawatts of dependable capacity that the project is capable of delivering by 2018 and continuing to deliver over the expected life of the project.

(3) In determining under

section 71 of the Act whether the authority's energy supply contract in respect of the Conifex Mackenzie Power Project is in the public interest, the commission must assume that the authority requires, by 2013, in order to meet its electricity supply obligations, the 200 gigawatt hours per year of firm energy that would be provided under the contract.

(4) In considering under

section 44.2 (3) of the Act whether to accept or reject all or part of the authority’s expenditure

schedule relating to proposed expenditures on demand-side measures for the authority's 2012 and 2013 fiscal years, the commission, despite sections 44.2 (3) (

a) and (5.1) of the Act, must accept an expenditure respecting a demand-side measure if

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a) the demand-side measure is cost-effective in accordance with the Demand-Side Measures Regulation, and

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b) the expenditure has not been shown to the satisfaction of the commission to be unreasonable for achieving the reductions in demand attributable to the demand-side measure.

(5) In setting rates for the authority, the commission must ensure that those rates allow the authority to collect sufficient revenue in each fiscal year to enable the authority to recover costs incurred in carrying out demand-side measures accepted under subsection (4).

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