Orders

 

ORDER NUMBER

F-5-23

 

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

 

and

 

Creative Energy Vancouver Platforms Inc.

Expo-Beatty Plants Redevelopment Project Final Design

Participant Assistance/Cost Award Application

 

BEFORE:

T. A. Loski, Panel Chair

A. Pape-Salmon, Commissioner

 

on February 8, 2023

 

ORDER

WHEREAS:

 

A.      On April 26, 2022, Creative Energy Vancouver Platforms Inc. (Creative Energy) filed a compliance filing (Compliance Filing) with the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) with respect to its project to construct and operate a new and renovated steam plant works and related facilities at 720 Beatty Street in Vancouver and at an adjacent site within BC Place Stadium (Project). The Project was granted a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN), subject to certain conditions, pursuant to sections 45 and 46 of the Utilities Commission Act, by Order C-1-20, dated March 5, 2020;

B.      Creative Energy, in its Compliance Filing, proposes to proceed with a different design (Final Design) for the Project and requests that the BCUC:

i)        confirm that it approves the changes to boiler number, capacity and location pursuant to the Final Design, as provided for under condition (iv) of Directive 1 of Order C-1-20;

ii)       confirm that for the Final Design, a temporary boiler is not required under condition (ii) of Directive 1 of Order C-1-20; and

iii)     confirm that the undepreciated net book value associated with the retirement of additional assets pursuant to the Final Design may be added to the Regulatory Deferral Account established pursuant to Directive 3 of Order C-1-20;

C.      By Orders G-145-22A and G-230-22, the BCUC established a public hearing process and regulatory timetable for review of the Compliance Filing, which consisted of public notice, intervener registration, BCUC and intervener information requests (IRs) to Creative Energy, Creative Energy responses to IRs, Creative Energy and intervener written final arguments and Creative Energy’s written reply argument;

D.      The following parties registered as interveners in the proceeding:

1.       BC Old Age Pensioners’ Organization et al. (BCOAPO); and

2.       Commercial Energy Consumers Association of BC (the CEC);

E.       By Order G-360-22 dated December 13, 2022, the BCUC approved the requests made by Creative Energy in its Compliance Filing;

F.       The following participants filed Participant Assistance/Cost Award (PACA) applications with the BCUC with respect to their participation in the proceeding:

 

G.      By email correspondence dated January 13, 2023, Creative Energy stated it has no comments on the PACA applications; and

H.      The BCUC has reviewed the PACA applications in accordance with the criteria and rates set out in the PACA Guidelines, attached to BCUC Order G-97-17, and concludes that the cost awards should be approved.

 

NOW THEREFORE pursuant to section 118(1) of the Utilities Commission Act, the BCUC orders as follows:

 

1.       Funding is awarded to the following interveners in the listed amounts for their participation in the proceeding:

 

2.       Creative Energy is directed to reimburse the above-noted participants for the awarded amounts in a timely manner.

 

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this   8^th  day of February 2023.

 

BY ORDER

 

Original signed by:

 

T. A. Loski

Commissioner