Orders

ORDER NUMBER

G-316-22

 

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

 

and

 

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

2021 Integrated Resource Plan

 

BEFORE:

D. M. Morton, Panel Chair

C. M. Brewer, Commissioner

T. A. Loski, Commissioner

R. I. Mason, Commissioner

 

on November 4, 2022

 

ORDER

WHEREAS:

 

A.      On December 21, 2021, British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (BC Hydro) filed its 2021 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Application with the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), pursuant to section 44.1 of the Utilities Commission Act (UCA) and in accordance with Order G-28-21 dated January 27, 2021;

B.      By Order G-227-22 dated August 12, 2022, the BCUC established a further regulatory timetable, which included a process for intervener and BC Hydro submissions on unanswered Information Requests (IRs);

C.      By letters dated August 19 and September 1, 2022, the BCUC determined that BC Hydro must file updated responses to certain intervener IRs by September 29, 2022;

D.      On September 29, 2022, BC Hydro provided its supplemental responses to intervener IRs. BC Hydro filed the following responses with the BCUC only on the basis that the public disclosure of the information would be harmful to BC Hydro’s commercial interests in relation to the operation of its system:

                                 i.            Capital Power Corporation (Capital Power) IRs 1.2.1.1, 1.2.1.2, 1.2.1.3, and 1.2.2.1; and

                               ii.            Commercial Energy Consumers of BC (the CEC) IR 1.90.1.

E.       By letter dated October 3, 2022, Capital Power filed a request to access BC Hydro’s responses to Capital Power IRs 1.2.1.1, 1.2.1.2, 1.2.1.3, and 1.2.2.1;

F.       By letters dated October 3 and 4, 2022, the BCUC requested submissions from BC Hydro regarding the confidentiality of certain IR responses, including a reply to Capital Power’s letter dated October 3, 2022;

G.      By letter dated October 12, 2022, Capital Power filed a request for a Reconsideration of BCUC Order
G-280-22 on procedural fairness grounds (Reconsideration Application). Capital Power requests, among other things, that the BCUC grant Capital Power’s request for reconsideration of Order G-280-22 and suspend the application of directive 2 of Order G-280-22 to Capital Power in the manner contemplated by the reasons attached to said Order, pending an opportunity for Capital Power to reply to BC Hydro’s access request objection of October 6, 2022 prior to the BCUC’s redetermination of Capital Power’s access request of October 3, 2022;

H.      By Order G-291-22 dated October 20, 2022, the BCUC established an expedited written hearing process for the review of the Reconsideration Application;

I.         By Order G-315-22 dated November 3, 2022, the BCUC made its determination on the Reconsideration Application. The BCUC ordered that the application of directive 2 of Order G-280-22 to Capital Power in the manner contemplated by the reasons attached to Order G-280-22 is rescinded and the matter is remitted back to the BCUC panel that made Order G-280-22, pending an opportunity for Capital Power to reply to
BC Hydro’s access request objection of October 6, 2022; and

J.        The BCUC determines an amended regulatory timetable is established.

 

NOW THEREFORE the BCUC orders an amended regulatory timetable is established, as set out in Appendix A of this order.

 

 

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this   4^th  day of November 2022.

 

BY ORDER

 

Original signed by:

 

D. M. Morton

Commissioner

 

 

Attachment

 

 

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

2021 Integrated Resource Plan