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Volume 57, No. 20

201/2014

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

November 4, 2014

B.C. Reg. 201/2014 , deposited November 4, 2014, under the CLEAN ENERGY ACT [sections 9 and 35 (j)]. Order in Council 612/2014, approved and ordered November 3, 2014.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the attached Domestic Long-Term Sales Contracts Regulation is made.

— B. BENNETT, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review ; N. LETNICK, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

DOMESTIC LONG-TERM SALES CONTRACTS REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

Program

Schedule 1 – Energy Charge

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

“Act” means the Clean Energy Act ;

“LNG facility” means

(

a) a facility to liquefy natural gas constructed after this regulation comes into force, and

(

b) an expansion, constructed after this regulation comes into force, to a facility to increase the facility’s capacity to liquefy natural gas;

“program” means the program referred to in

section 9 [domestic long-term sales contracts] of the Act.

Program

(1) The authority must establish the program within 6 months from the date this regulation comes into force.

(2) Offers under the program

(

a) must be available to customers who intend to operate an LNG facility, and

(

b) must include the following terms:

(

i) the offer is for firm service at 60kV or higher for the purpose of operating the customer’s facility, including the operation of the liquefaction, storage and loading components, but not for the purpose of constructing the facility;

(ii) the offer is at a rate that is the sum of

(

A) the demand charge set out in rate

schedule 1823, as that

schedule is amended from time to time, and

(

B) the greater of the energy charges set out in rate

schedule 1823, as it is amended from time to time, and the energy charges set out in

Schedule 1 to this regulation;

(iii) the offer requires the customer to pay the full cost of interconnecting with the authority’s transmission system and any system upgrades identified by the authority as required to serve the customer.

Schedule 1

Energy Charge

Item

Period Start Date

Rate

January 1, 2015

$73.87/MWh

January 1, 2016

$75.35/MWh

January 1, 2017

$76.85/MWh

January 1, 2018

$78.39/MWh

January 1, 2019

$79.96/MWh

January 1, 2020

$81.56/MWh

January 1, 2021

$83.19/MWh

January 1, 2022

$84.85/MWh

January 1, 2023

$86.55/MWh

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