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Volume 58, No. 15

139/2015

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 28, 2015

B.C. Reg. 139/2015 , deposited July 15, 2015, under the UTILITIES COMMISSION ACT [section 3]. Order in Council 404/2015, approved and ordered July 14, 2015.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the attached Direction to the British Columbia Utilities Commission Respecting the Authority’s TMP Program is made.

— W. R. BENNETT, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review ; S. CADIEUX, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

DIRECTION TO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA UTILITIES COMMISSION RESPECTING THE AUTHORITY’S TMP PROGRAM

Definitions

1 In this direction:

“Act” means the Utilities Commission Act ;

“DSM regulatory account” means the regulatory account of the authority established under commission order G-55-95;

“TMP program” means the authority’s program to provide funding to increase the electrical energy efficiency of mills that use thermo-mechanical pulping processes.

Application

2 This direction is issued to the commission under

section 3 of the Act.

TMP program

(1) Subject to subsection (2), in setting rates for the authority, the commission must not disallow for any reason the recovery in rates of the costs incurred by the authority in carrying out the TMP program.

(2) The costs recovered by rates referred to in subsection (1) must not exceed $100 million.

(3) The commission must, in regard to the DSM regulatory account, allow the authority to defer to that account the authority’s costs incurred as a result of carrying out the TMP program.

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