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Volume 62, No. 7

71/2019

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 9, 2019

B.C. Reg. 71/2019 , deposited April 1, 2019, under the UTILITIES COMMISSION ACT [section 3]. Order in Council 158/2019, approved and ordered April 1, 2019.

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 Biomass Energy Program

is made.

— M. MUNGALL, Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources ; M. FARNWORTH, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

DIRECTION TO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA UTILITIES

COMMISSION RESPECTING THE BIOMASS ENERGY

PROGRAM

Definitions

1 In this direction:

"Act" means the Utilities Commission Act ;

"biomass contract" means

(

a) a contract in respect of a biomass facility that the authority enters into

between April 1, 2019 and December 31, 2021, if the contract does one or both of the

following:

the biomass facility is sold to the authority;

the biomass facility is used to supply a portion of a customer’s load or to reduce

a portion of a customer’s electricity purchases, and

(

b) an amendment to a contract referred to in paragraph (a);

"biomass facility" means the following facilities:

(

a) Armstrong Wood Waste Co-Generation;

(

b) NWE Williams Lake Wood Waste;

(

c) Skookumchuck Power;

(

d) PGP Bio Energy;

(

e) Celgar Green Energy;

(

f) Howe Sound Green Energy;

(

g) Powell River Generation.

Application

2 This direction is issued to the commission under

section 3 of the Act.

Biomass contracts

3 The commission may not exercise its powers under

section 71 (1) (

b) or (3) of the

Act respecting applicable biomass contracts.

Rates

4 In setting rates for the authority, the commission may not disallow for any reason

the recovery in rates of the authority’s costs with respect to a biomass contract.

Tariff

(1) The commission must set as a rate the rate

schedule that is attached to this

direction as Appendix 1 within 10 days of receiving an application from the authority

for the commission to do so.

(2) The commission may not cancel, suspend or amend the rate set under subsection (1),

except on application by the authority.

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