Orders

ORDER NUMBER

G-48-23

 

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

 

and

 

FortisBC Energy Inc.

Application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity

for the Interior Transmission System Transmission Integrity Management Capabilities Project

 

BEFORE:

C. M. Brewer, Panel Chair

A. C. Dennier, Commissioner

E. B. Lockhart, Commissioner

 

on March 10, 2023

 

ORDER

WHEREAS:

 

A.      On September 20, 2022, FortisBC Energy Inc. (FEI) filed an 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 Interior Transmission System (ITS) Transmission Integrity Management Capabilities (TIMC) Project (ITS TIMC Project) (Application);

B.      The ITS TIMC Project consists of work necessary to prepare eight pipelines on the ITS for the use of in-line inspection tools. The scope of the ITS TIMC Project includes:

1.       Replacement of three heavy wall pipeline segments on two of the ITS pipelines; and

2.       Modification to 13 transmission pressure facilities within the ITS;

C.      In the Application, FEI also requests approval, pursuant to sections 59 to 61 of the UCA, to transfer the balance of the TIMC Development Cost deferral account associated with the Application, estimated to be a credit of $0.574 million, from the existing non-rate base TIMC Development Cost deferral account to the existing rate base TIMC Development Cost deferral account; and

D.      By Order G-320-22 dated November 7, 2022, the BCUC established the regulatory timetable for the review of the Application, which included one round of information requests (IRs) to FEI from the BCUC and interveners;

E.       On February 16, 2023, FEI filed its responses to BCUC and intervener IRs (IR No. 1); and

F.       The BCUC has reviewed FEI’s IR No. 1 responses and determines that a further regulatory timetable is warranted.

NOW THEREFORE the BCUC establishes a further regulatory timetable for the review of the Application, as set out in Appendix A to this order.

 

 

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this   10^th   day of March 2023.

 

BY ORDER

 

Original signed by:

 

C. M. Brewer

Commissioner

 

 

Attachment

 

 

FortisBC Energy Inc.

Application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity for the

Interior Transmission System Transmission Integrity Management Capabilities Project