Orders

IN THE MATTER OF

the Utilities Commission Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, Chapter 473

and

An Application by Powell River Energy Inc.

for Acceptance of Mitigation Plan required for Compliance with Mandatory Reliability Standards

MOD-010-0 Requirement 1 - Violation ID:  BCUC201000192

MOD-010-0 Requirement 2 - Violation ID:  BCUC201000194

BEFORE:               L.F. Kelsey, Commissioner

                                C.A. Brown, Commissioner                                          February 16, 2012

                                N.E. MacMurchy, Commissioner                              

                                D.M. Morton, Commissioner

O  R  D  E  R

WHEREAS:

A.      Section 125.2 of the Utilities Commission Act (Act) assigns exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether a “reliability standard,” as defined in the Act, is in the public interest and should be adopted in British Columbia by the British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission).  By Order G-123-09 the Commission approved the Compliance Monitoring Program (CMP) for monitoring and enforcement of adopted reliability standards and appointed the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) as its Administrator for registration and monitoring compliance as per section 8 of the Act;

B.      Commission Order G-67-09 requires entities subject to approved Mandatory Reliability Standards, to file mitigation plans outlining how they plan to meet compliance with standards they are not in compliance with;

C.      Section 5.1.1 of the CMP requires that an entity file a Mitigation Plan for every violation to a standard requirement and that WECC review the Mitigation Plan and make a recommendation to the Commission;

D.      By letter dated January 31 2012, WECC recommended acceptance of the following Mitigation Plans for Powell River Energy Inc. to bring it into compliance with the following standards:

NOW THEREFORE pursuant to section 125.2 (10) of the Act and in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring Program, the Commission accepts WECC’s recommendations and approves the Mitigation Plans as listed above.

DATED at the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this       22^nd              day of February 2012.

                                                                                                                                BY ORDER

                                                                                                                                Original signed by:

                                                                                                                                L.F. Kelsey

                                                                                                                                Commissioner