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Volume 57, No. 18

186/2014

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 7, 2014

B.C. Reg. 186/2014 , deposited October 7, 2014, under the UTILITIES COMMISSION ACT [section 125.1]. Ministerial Order M325/2014, dated October 6, 2014.

I, Bill Bennett, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review, order that the Mandatory Reliability Standards Regulation, B.C. Reg. 32/2009, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— B. BENNETT, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review .

Schedule

Section 1 of the Mandatory Reliability Standards Regulation, B.C. Reg. 32/2009, is amended by repealing the definition of “bulk power system” and substituting the following:

“bulk power system” includes

(

a) the transmission elements listed as inclusions in the NERC definition, and

(

b) all transmission elements operated at 100 kilovolts or higher and real power and reactive power resources connected at 100 kilovolts or higher

but does not include transmission elements listed as exclusions in the NERC definition;

“element” has the same meaning as in the NERC Glossary;

“NERC definition” means the definition of “bulk electric system” in the NERC Glossary;

“NERC Glossary” means the Glossary of Terms Used in NERC Reliability Standards, by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and updated May 8, 2014;

“reactive power” has the same meaning as in the NERC Glossary;

“real power” has the same meaning as in the NERC Glossary.

Section 2 is repealed and the following substituted:

Application

2 A reliability standard adopted under

section 125.2 (6) of the Act applies to all owners, operators and direct users of an element that is part of the bulk power system.

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