Via Email
October 13, 2010
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To: Registered Interveners
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority
Re: British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority
Project No. 3698592/Order G-136-10
Fiscal 2011 Revenue Requirements Application
The Commission Panel, in Appendix A to Order G-136-10 dated August 23, 2010, set out the further Amended Regulatory Timetable to review the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (BC Hydro) F2011 Revenue Requirements Application. The Amended Regulatory Timetable provides for a third procedural conference scheduled for Thursday, October 14, 2010 in the event there is no agreement reached at the conclusion of Negotiated Settlement Process (NSP).
The NSP commenced on September 22, 2010 and concluded on October 12, 2010. In a letter dated October 13, 2010
BC Hydro advised the Commission that the NSP has failed. BC Hydro also stated that it has no objection to the third procedural conference proceeding, but that in the absence of intervener motions or Commission Panel questions, it does not believe the conference is necessary. The Commission also received submissions from the Commercial Energy Consumers Association of British Columbia (CEC), Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union Local 378 (COPE 378),
B.C. Sustainable Energy Association and the Sierra Club of British Columbia (BCSEA), and the Joint Industry Electricity Steering Committee (Interveners) supporting the cancellation of the third procedural conference. The procedural conference scheduled for October 14, 2010 is hereby cancelled.
The CEC’s submission also proposed a one week delay to the dates for filing Intervener evidence, the filing of information requests and responses to the Intervener evidence, and BC Hydro rebuttal evidence (Intervener Evidence).
The Commision understands that Commission Counsel has canvassed the issue of advancing the date for commencement of the Oral Hearing to December 7, 2010. He has advised that he has received consent from the following parties with respect to the change: BC Hydro, CEC, BCSEA, COPE 378, Line Contractors Association of BC, British Columbia Old Age Pensioners' Organization et al., Independent Power Producers Association of B.C.
The Commission Panel requests any party that opposes this change to the Intervener Evidence and/or the commencement date to the Oral Hearing to advise the Commission in writing of its position and the reasons no later than Monday,
October 18, 2010.
Yours truly,
Erica M. Hamilton
SS/dg