BCSEA evidence on BC Hydro's December 2006 Integrated Electricity Plan

The BC Sustainable Energy Association, the Sierra Club of Canada BC Chapter, and the Peace Valley Environment Association engaged in BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) hearings on BC Hydro's 2006 Integrated Electricity Plan (IEP) and Long Term Electricity Purchase Agreement.

At the hearings, we advocated for more Demand Side Management (DSM) expenditures and more ambitious DSM targets. We also promoted and highlighted our evidence that BC Hydro should not be assessing its $3/MWh price premium for hourly firm energy (i.e. not wind energy) because BC Hydro's reservoir system has plenty of buffering capacity for the intemittency of wind, and there is no effective cost to BC Hydro, at least for the amounts of wind we're talking about now.

Please download the PDF files below to review the evidence of our expert witnesses submitted at the BC Utility Commission hearings in early 2007:

John Plunkett of Green Energy Economics Group on DSM
Bob Fagan of Synapse Energy on the firming premium.

Plunkett, from Vermont, and Fagan, from Massachussetts attended the hearings to present this evidence.