Orders

 

 

ORDER NUMBER

G-104-24

 

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

 

and

 

Creative Energy Vancouver Platforms Inc.

2024 Revenue Requirements for the Core Thermal Energy System

 

BEFORE:

A. K. Fung, K.C., Panel Chair

E. B. Lockhart, Commissioner

 

on April 8, 2024

 

ORDER

WHEREAS:

 

A.      On December 15, 2023, Creative Energy Vancouver Platforms Inc. (Creative Energy) filed with the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) its 2024 Revenue Requirements Application (RRA) for the thermal energy system serving downtown Vancouver and Northeast False Creek (NEFC) (together, Core TES) (Application). In the Application, as amended, Creative Energy requests, among other things, approval of the thermal energy service rates for the Core TES which are equivalent to an average rate of $12.62 per thousand pounds (M#) of steam and a system contribution charge of $10.60 per megawatt hour (MWh) of thermal energy for customers connected to the NEFC system, effective January 1, 2024;

B.      By Order G-13-24 dated January 12, 2024, the BCUC approved, on an interim and refundable basis, effective January 1, 2024, the thermal energy rates equivalent to an average rate of $12.58 per M# of steam and system contribution charge of $10.60 per MWh of thermal energy as set forth in Appendix B to the original Application;

C.      By the same order, the BCUC established a regulatory timetable for the review of the Application, which included, among other things, intervener registration and Creative Energy filing an evidentiary update to the Application, one round of information requests (IR) with limited scope and final and reply arguments;

D.      On March 25, 2024, Creative Energy filed its responses to IR No. 1; and

E.       The BCUC has reviewed the evidentiary record and determines that amending the regulatory timetable for further review of the Application is warranted.

 

NOW THEREFORE the BCUC orders as follows:

 

1.       The BCUC establishes an amended regulatory timetable as set out in Appendix A to this order.

2.       The scope of IR No. 2 is limited to follow-up matters arising from Creative Energy’s responses to the BCUC's and interveners’ IR No. 1.

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this          8^th         day of April 2024.

 

BY ORDER

 

Original signed by:

 

A. K. Fung, K.C.

Commissioner

 

 

Attachment

Creative Energy Vancouver Platforms Inc.

2024 Revenue Requirements for the Core Thermal Energy System