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768:. BC Hydro belongs to a power sharing consortium which includes electric utilities in Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California. In 2013 British Columbia's minister of energy and mines, Bill Bennett spoke to why BC Hydro was agreeing to a $ 750 million settlement with California over claims Powerex manipulated electricity prices.
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as a future option. In May 2014, a federal-provincial Joint Review Panel released a report into the project's environmental, economic, social, heritage, and health effects. A notice of Site C construction commencing in 2015 was issued July 2015. Revelstoke Dam built in 1984 was the last new dam built
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program encourages energy conservation among its residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The program also aims to promote energy saving retail products and building construction, and includes a "Sustainable
Communities Program". Its in-house Resource Smart program is used to identify and
688:(BCUC) to regulate public energy utilities and to act as an independent, quasi-judicial regulatory agency regarding energy rates. In 2003 the BC government passed several pieces of legislation to redefine and regulate power utilities in British Columbia. The Transmission Corporation Act created the
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Also about this time, sawmills and factories converted to electricity, further increasing the demand for electric power. BC Electric developed more hydro stations in the province. Similarly, small towns also built and operated their own power stations. More power transmission lines were also built.
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November 2013 the BC Minister of Energy and Mines announced a 10-year plan that will keep electricity rates as low as possible. Increases during the first five years will be between 9 and 3 percent annually. BC Hydro's profitability is affected by its large debt, estimated to reach five billion
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was built to create an energy reservoir for the Gordon M. Shrum
Generating Station, which has a capacity of 2,730 Megawatts of electric power and generated 13,810 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year on average 2012–16. When it was completed in 1968, the dam was the largest earth-fill structure
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BC Hydro was committed by the BC government's Energy Plan to achieve electric power self-sufficiency in the province by 2016, with all new generation plants having zero net greenhouse gas emissions by the same year. In 2013, BC Hydro released an
Integrated Resource Plan which includes meeting at
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hydro and more recently, wind power, wood residue energy, and energy from organic municipal waste. There has been some criticism of this policy on the basis that it will result in Hydro paying significantly higher rates to private producers than it would have if the power were self-generated.
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Also in 2003, BC Hydro privatized the services provided by 1540 of its employees in its
Customer Service, Westech IT Services, Network Computer Services, Human Resources, Financial Systems, Purchasing, and Building and Office Services groups. These services are now provided under contract by
720:(BCUC). It was turned down by the BCUC at that time. Another attempt to revive it in the 1990s was blocked by environmental concerns. In 2004 the BC government's Energy Plan instructed BC Hydro to begin discussions with First Nations, the Province of Alberta and communities to discuss
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BC Hydro has also entered into energy purchase contracts with a new category of company created by special legislation, Independent Power
Producers (IPPs) to buy electricity generated from intermittent renewable sources, mainly from small capacity
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implement efficiency gains at existing BC Hydro facilities. BC Hydro also practices energy conservation at its generating facilities through the continuous monitoring and efficient use of the water resources used to power its generators.
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In 1989 the Power Smart and
Resource Smart programs were initiated by BC Hydro to promote energy conservation as an alternative to the cost of creating new generating facilities. Since 2001, BC Hydro has focused on its conservation and
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halted this business expansion. Also with the depression came an increase in the ridership, and a decrease in the maintenance of the streetcar system. In 1947, the BC Power
Commission completed the John Hart Generating Station at
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is delivered through a network of 18,286 kilometers of transmission lines and 55,254 kilometers of distribution lines. For the 2013-2014 fiscal year, the domestic electric sales volume was 53,018 gigawatt hours, revenue was
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moved from its Carrall Street headquarters to a modern 21 storey building on Burrard Street. In 1998, it was converted to condominiums and renamed the
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directly provides electric service to 213,000 customers and supplies municipally owned utilities in the same area. As a provincial
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trolley bus that has been preserved in a paint scheme adopted by BC Hydro in 1962. Note Hydro logo on front.
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known as BC Hydro. The new corporation's responsibility for mass transit included operation of the
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near Cache Creek, but abandoned the effort in 1981 due to strong environmental opposition.
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in 1897. Power was generated by coal-fired steam plants. Increasing demand in the
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were beginning to affect streetcar traffic. New dams were planned, including the
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1807:"Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry - News Releases"
1643:"Energy Firms Propose Ethanol and Geothermal Plants in B.C."
436:. Sensible growth and expansion of the power, streetcar and
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1883:"IPPs to cost BC Hydro almost $ 1 billion annually by 2014"
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generating projects. The first large dam was built on the
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SMART METERING & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM BUSINESS CASE
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between Nelson and Castlegar was completed in 1976. The
2274:"Auditor General sounds alarm over BC Hydro accounting"
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1742:"Must the 'Big Smoke' Always Get Its Way? - The Tyee"
1632:. Bchydro.com (2012-11-30). Retrieved on 2014-04-12.
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Between 1960 and 1980, BC Hydro completed six large
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OVERVIEW OF BC HYDRO’S ENERGY PROCUREMENT PRACTICES
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2185:Private Power: PostMedia Sees The Light
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2120:The Province of British Columbia - Home
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1702:"British Columbia Energy Plan 2007"
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1560:B.C. Hydro. Power Pioneers (1998).
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617:near Trail were completed in 1979.
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109:Chris O'Riley, President & CEO
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953:Plants, property & equipment
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2523:Forestry Innovation Investment
1292:2015 British Columbia blackout
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563:W. A. C. Bennett Dam
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1469:"BC Hydro's System"
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1200:BC Hydro's
636:, north of
555:Peace River
528:Terasen Gas
524:natural gas
329:Electricity
307:natural gas
288:Fortis Inc.
280:Similkameen
169:668 million
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2589:Categories
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2006:2011-07-01
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1360:. BC Hydro
1333:References
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595:Duncan Dam
587:Revelstoke
534:Modern era
511:facility.
501:Port Moody
475:, but the
434:Stave Lake
155:Net income
105:Key people
36:Trade name
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2224:Vancouver
2076:cite book
2015:cite book
1541:cite book
1189:BC Hydro
841:Revenues
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698:Accenture
678:Vancouver
642:Hat Creek
638:Pemberton
530:in 2003.
492:in 1960.
446:Puntledge
426:Edwardian
418:Vancouver
81:Vancouver
2595:BC Hydro
2458:BC Hydro
2222:CTV News
2201:March 7,
2037:, p. 114
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1302:FortisBC
1256:See also
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438:coal gas
414:Victoria
381:In 1957
315:Columbia
309:-fueled
284:FortisBC
272:Okanagan
252:BC Hydro
233:.bchydro
114:Products
56:Industry
41:BC Hydro
2478:BC Rail
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1940:Reuters
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397:A 1954
347:History
226:Website
132:Revenue
89:V6B 5R3
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218:6128
203:Owner
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