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 the Mitigation Plan required for Compliance with the Mandatory Reliability Standard

COM-002-2 Requirement 1 - Violation ID:  BCUC201000184

BEFORE:               L.F. Kelsey, Commissioner

                                C.A. Brown, Commissioner                                          February 16, 2012

                                D.M. Morton, Commissioner

                                N.E. MacMurchy, Commission

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 26, 2012, WECC recommended acceptance of the Mitigation Plan for Powell River Energy Inc. to bring it into compliance with the following standard:

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 Plan 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