B.C. Reg. 124/2024, deposited June 10, 2024, under the CLEAN ENERGY ACT [section 35]. Order in Council 301/2024, approved and ordered June 10, 2024.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 102/2012, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— J. OSBORNE, Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation; S. MALCOLMSON, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule

1 Section 2 (2) (c) of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 102/2012, is amended by striking out "During" and substituting "during".

2 The following section is added:

Prescribed undertaking – electricity purchases for non-integrated areas

3.1 (1) In this section:

"microgrid" means an electricity generation, storage and distribution system owned and operated by the authority for a non-integrated area;

"non-integrated area" means any of the following:

(a) Ah-Sin-Heek (Bella Coola);

(b) Anahim Lake;

(c) Atlin;

(d) Bella Bella;

(e) Dease Lake;

(f) Ehthlateese;

(g) Good Hope Lake;

(h) Hartley Bay;

(i) Kwadacha;

(j) Masset;

(k) Sandspit;

(l) Telegraph Creek;

(m) Toad River;

(n) Tsay Keh Dene.

(2) A public utility’s undertaking that is in the class defined as follows is a prescribed undertaking for the purposes of section 18 of the Act:

(a) the public utility, on or before December 31, 2029, enters into a contract to purchase electricity;

(b) the electricity referred to in paragraph (a) is

(i) produced, at a facility that begins operating on or after January 1, 2024, using a clean or renewable resource as defined in the Act, and

(ii) used to provide service to a non-integrated area;

(c) if the public utility reasonably expects that upgrades are necessary to enable distribution of the electricity referred to in paragraph (a) in a microgrid, the public utility constructs and operates those upgrades.

3 Sections 4 (2), 5 (2) and (3), 5.1 (2) and (3), 5.2 (2), 6, 7 (2) and 8 (1) are amended by striking out "a class defined" wherever it appears and substituting "the class defined".

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