Orders

ORDER NUMBER

G-318-21

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

and

FortisBC Energy Inc.

Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity

for the Coastal Transmission System Transmission Integrity Management Capabilities Project

BEFORE:

A. K. Fung, QC, Panel Chair

C. M. Brewer, Commissioner

D. M. Morton, Commissioner

on November 3, 2021

ORDER

WHEREAS:

A.            On February 11, 2021, FortisBC Energy Inc. (FEI) filed an application (Application) with the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN), pursuant to sections 45 and 46 of the Utilities Commission Act (UCA), for FEI’s Coastal Transmission System (CTS) Transmission Integrity Management Capabilities (TIMC) Project (CTS TIMC Project);

B.            The CTS TIMC Project includes the following:

1.       Required pipeline alterations including replacement of heavy wall segments and alterations to related facilities that are necessary to ready the 11 susceptible CTS pipelines for electro-magnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) in-line inspection (ILI); and

2.       Installation of a pressure regulating station (PRS) on a single segment of one of the pipelines where EMAT ILI is not possible;

C.          FEI also requests approval, pursuant to sections 59 to 61 of the UCA, to recover the balance of costs in the TIMC Development Cost deferral account associated with the development of the Application, estimated at $13.2 million, by amortizing the December 31, 2021 actual balance of these costs over three years;

D.      By Order G-74-21 dated March 11, 2021, the BCUC established a regulatory timetable for review of the Application;

E.          By letter dated November 2, 2021, British Columbia Old Age Pensioners’ Organization et al. (BCOAPO) requested an extension for filing its Final Argument from November 9, 2021 to November 12, 2021;

F.          By letter dated November 3, 2021, the Residential Consumer Intervener Association (RCIA) requested an extension for filing its Final Argument from November 9, 2021 to November 12, 2021; and

G.         The BCUC has reviewed BCOAPO’s and RCIA’s extension requests and determines that an amendment to the regulatory timetable is warranted.

NOW THEREFORE the BCUC amends the regulatory timetable as set out in Appendix A to this order.

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this         3^rd       day of November 2021.

BY ORDER

Original signed by:

A. K. Fung, QC

Commissioner

Attachment

FortisBC Energy Inc.

Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the

Coastal Transmission System Transmission Integrity Management Capabilities Project