BC Hydro

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BC Hydro is one of Canada’s largest electricity utilities. In 2010, the Clean Energy Act consolidated

BC Hydro and BC Transmission Corporation into one single entity. As a crown corporation,

BC Hydro reports to the B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines.

BC Hydro generates between 43,000 and 54,000 GWh a year, depending on prevailing hydrological

conditions. Most of the utility’s installed capacity comes from hydropower facilities on

the Peace and Columbia rivers. These river basins contributed 30% and 25%, respectively, of the

company’s total power production in 2010. Facilities on other river basins contributed 25% of the

company’s 2010 electricity output, and the remainder came from conventional thermoelectric

plants and electricity purchases.

BC Hydro manages the planning, operation and maintenance of an 18,500km transmission

system that connects electricity generation sites in the interior regions of B.C. with the major

load centres in the southwest of the province. The company services 1.8 million customers, and

projects that electricity needs in the province will grow by 20-40% over the next 20 years.o

In response to the projected electricity supply gap, BC Hydro develops an Integrated Resource

Plan that outlines the company’s strategy to meet future demand, including demand-side

management, enhancement of existing assets, development of new assets, purchases of new

clean power and improved transmission and distribution capacity. The utility has plans to invest

more than $460 million toward its Strategic Asset Management Plan objectives in 2011 alone</p>