British Columbia Order in Council — Amendment to Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation (O.C. 339/2020)

O.C. 339/2020

British Columbia — Orders in Council

PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ORDER OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL Order in Council No. , Approved and Ordered Lieutenant Governor Executive Council Chambers, Victoria On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Greenhouse Gas Reduc tion (Clean Energy) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 102/2012, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule. Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Presiding Member of the Executive Council (This

part is for administrative purposes only and is not part of the Order.) Authority under which Order is made: Act and section: Clean Energy Act, S.B.C. 2010, c. 22, s. 35 (

n) Other: OIC 295/2012 R10362917 June 22, 2020

SCHEDULE The Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 102/2012, is amended by adding the following section: Prescribed undertaking – electric vehicle charging stations 5

(1) In this section: “eligible charging site” means a site where one or mo re eligible charging stations are located; “eligible charging station” means a fast charging station that (

a) is available for use 24 hours a day by any member of the public, (

b) does not require users to be me mbers of a charging network, and (

c) is capable of charging electric vehicles of more than one make; “fast charging station” means a fixed device capable of charging an electric vehicle using a direct current; “limited municipality” means a municipality with a population of or more; “site limit”, in relation to a limited municipality, means the number calculated by (

a) dividing the population of the municipality by 9 000, and (

b) if applicable, rounding the quotient up to the nearest whole number.

(2) A public utility’s undertaking that is in a class defined as follows is a prescribed undertaking for the purposes of

section of the Act: (

a) the public utility cons tructs and operates, or purchases and operates, an eligible charging station; (

b) the public utility reasona bly expects, on the date the public utility decides to construct or purchase an eligible charging station, that (

i) the station will come into operation by December 31, 2025, and (ii) if the station will be located in a limited municipality, the number of eligible charging sites in the municipality on the date the station will come into operation will not exceed the site limit for the municipality on that date; (

c) if an eligible charging stati on comes into operation on or after January 1, 2022, the station uses or is configured to use the Open Charge Point Protocol.

Document details

Collection	British Columbia — Orders in Council
Citation	O.C. 339/2020
Type	order_in_council
Volume / chapter	arc oic 0339 2020
Language	en
Format	pdf
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	ed052102ed545cd51ba561d2a61f20700c854d79

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