BC Utilities Commission

The BCSEA has advocated sustainable energy solutions in reviews of BC Hydro's plans before the BC Utilities Commission since 2004.

Working with Sierra Club BC and other allies, the BCSEA has intervened before the Utilities Commission on many reviews of BC Hydro’s various energy plans, including the review of the Duke Point power plant proposal (2004), the 2006 Integrated Electricity Plan (2006-07), and currently the Long-Term Acquisition Plan (2008).

We have brought expert evidence and testimony in support of:

• Ensuring that the costs of greenhouse gas emissions would be fully factored into energy supply decisions;
• Increased expenditures on energy conservation and efficiency;
• Avoiding unreasonable costs to producers for integrating renewable energy onto the grid;
• And much more.

We have also approached the government to ask that the Utilities Commission should be required to fully factor into its decisions the environmental costs of energy plans.