Orders

ORDER NUMBER

G-92-17

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

and

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

Inquiry of Expenditures related to the adoption of the SAP Platform

British Columbia Utilities Commission Action on Complaint

BEFORE:

D. M. Morton, Commissioner/Panel Chair

H. G. Harowitz, Commissioner

R. I. Mason, Commissioner

on June 14, 2017

ORDER

WHEREAS:

A.      On December 10, 2015, the British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission) received a letter dated December 8, 2015 from Mr. Adrian Dix, MLA (Mr. Dix), which makes a number of statements and allegations against British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (BC Hydro) pertaining to its conversion to SAP as its Information Technology platform;

B.      On May 3, 2016, the Commission issued Order G-58-16 establishing an inquiry to review BC Hydro’s expenditures related to the adoption of the SAP platform (SAP Inquiry);

C.      The regulatory process to-date, established by Orders G-62-16, G-81-16, G-146-16, G-168-16 and G-26-17, has included intervener registration, submissions by interveners on the scope of the SAP Inquiry, two procedural conferences, BC Hydro’s filing of consolidated information, one round of Commission and intervener information requests (IRs), BC Hydro’s filing of witness statements from six of its current employees, and one round of IRs on the six witness statements;

D.      On March 20, 2017, the Commission received a letter from the legal firm Hamilton Howell Bain & Gould informing the Commission that on April 1, 2010, its client filed a code of conduct complaint (2010 Complaint) with BC Hydro’s Code of Conduct Advisor, which has relevancy to the issues under consideration in the SAP Inquiry;

E.       Subsequent to submissions received from Mr. Dix and BC Hydro on whether the 2010 Complaint should be filed as evidence in the SAP Inquiry, the Commission issued Order G-86-17 directing BC Hydro to file, among other things, the 2010 Complaint. The Commission also established a regulatory timetable that included a deadline for BC Hydro’s filing of the requested documents and one round of Commission and intervener IRs on the documents;

F.       On June 13, 2017, BC Hydro filed a letter with the Commission requesting a two-week extension to the filing date in Order G-86-17 from Wednesday, June 14, 2017 to Wednesday, June 28, 2017. BC Hydro submitted that it is expecting to file more than 100 documents in response to Commission Order G-86-17 and that additional time is required to allow BC Hydro’s Ethics Officer to review all of the documents to fully understand the impact on its Code of Conduct Reporting Program; and

G.     The Commission has reviewed BC Hydro’s extension request and considers the extension to be warranted to allow BC Hydro’s Ethics Officer adequate time to review the documents prior to filing these documents as evidence in the SAP Inquiry.

NOW THEREFORE the British Columbia Utilities Commission amends the regulatory timetable established by Order G-86-17. The amended regulatory timetable is attached as Appendix A to this order.

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this      14^th       day of June 2017.

BY ORDER

Original signed by:

D. M. Morton

Commissioner

Attachment

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

Inquiry of Expenditures related to the adoption of the SAP Platform

British Columbia Utilities Commission Action on Complaint