Orders

 

ORDER NUMBER

G-308-24

 

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 473

 

and

 

Corix Burnaby Mountain DE Limited Partnership

Burnaby Mountain District Energy Utility 2024-2025 Revenue Requirements and Rates

 

BEFORE:

C.M. Brewer, Panel Chair

W. E. Royle, Commissioner

 

on November 21, 2024

 

ORDER

WHEREAS:

 

A.      On February 29, 2024, Corix Burnaby Mountain DE Limited Partnership (Corix) applied to the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), pursuant to sections 59 to 61 and 89 of the Utilities Commission Act (UCA), for approval of its Burnaby Mountain District Energy Utility (BMDEU) revenue requirements and rates for 2024 and 2025 (Application);

B.      Corix requests the following rate approvals for BMDEU, effective March 1, 2024 and January 1, 2025, among other matters:

         i.            For the UniverCity customer group, a monthly Basic Charge of $1.3672 per square metre (m²) and $1.4903 per m², effective March 1, 2024 and January 1, 2025, respectively;

       ii.            For the Simon Fraser University (SFU) customer group, Capacity, Consumption and Availability charges as set out below:

	Effective March 1, 2024	Effective January 1, 2025
Capacity ($/megawatt of Nominated Capacity/month)	19,704	19,919
Consumption ($/kilowatt-hour)	0.0268	0.0281
Availability ($/month)	33,000	33,000

 

C.      By Order G-76-24 dated March 19, 2024, the BCUC approved Corix’s request to set rates effective March 1, 2024, on an interim and refundable or recoverable basis;

D.      By Orders G-76-24 and G-173-24, the BCUC established and amended regulatory timetables for the review of the Application, which included, among other things, public notice, intervener registration, BCUC and intervener information requests (IR) No. 1 and 2, along with written final and reply arguments;

E.       SFU, as a customer group, registered as an intervener in the proceeding. Two other parties also registered as interveners representing the interests of residential ratepayers, including BMDEU’s UniverCity customer group; and

F.       The BCUC has reviewed the evidentiary record and determines that reopening the record is warranted to accommodate the issuance of Panel IR No. 1 to seek clarification on the SFU Capacity charge described in Recital B above (SFU Capacity Charge) and to provide SFU and Corix the opportunity to file supplementary written final and reply arguments.

NOW THEREFORE the BCUC orders as follows:

 

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

2.       Corix is directed to file responses to Panel IR No. 1, by the deadline established in the regulatory timetable.

 

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this          21^st          day of November 2024.

 

BY ORDER

 

Electronically signed by Carolann Brewer

 

C. M. Brewer

Commissioner

 

 

 

 

Corix Burnaby Mountain DE Limited Partnership

Burnaby Mountain District Energy Utility 2024–2025 Revenue Requirements and Rates

 

 

 

 

 

¹ The Panel requests that Corix and SFU address the appropriate level for the SFU Capacity Charge in their respective Supplementary Written Final Arguments, in light of Corix’s response to Panel IR No. 1.