According to the BCUC report, BC Hydro plans to increase costs to the customers in order to help cover the expenses of their questionable Smart Meter Program.

The concerned public is not aware of what is going on, due to details being buried in tons of paperwork.  Could it have something to do with the shock of this unnessasary increase alone would cancel the Smart Meter program?

One has to go to the BC Hydro SMI Application, which is here, and see the actual cost increases to know that in the long run any savings to home owners is impossible if there is a 30% increase already scheduled to take place :


B-1 BRITISH COLUMBIA HYDRO AND POWER AUTHORITY (BCH)

Letter dated March 1, 2011 – F2012-2014

Revenue Requirements Application

http://www.bcuc.com/Proceeding.aspx?ApplicationType=Current#mce_temp_url#

BC Hydro 2012-2014 Revenue Requirements

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority – Application for F2012-2014 Revenue Requirements

B1 – page 26

“Executive Summary F2012 to F2014 Revenue Requirements Application PAGE 3 “
The Province has also taken steps to ease the rate burden for BC Hydro’s
customers. As of January 1, 2011, increases in water rental rates that BC Hydro
pays are tied to inflation instead of to BC Hydro’s rate increases. In addition,
BC Hydro’s return on equity to the Province is now based on the total assets in
service rather than total debt plus equity. These two actions offset BC Hydro’s rate
increases by approximately 2 per cent per year over the F2012 to F2014 period.

Despite the actions of BC Hydro and the Province to mitigate cost pressures,
BC Hydro still requires significant rate increases. To minimize rate volatility,
BC Hydro proposes to smooth the rate increase in each of F2012, F2013 and F2014
through the use of a regulatory account,

resulting in rate increases of

9.73 per cent each year.

Without this smoothing treatment the rate increases would be
13.89 per cent, 5.33 per cent and 6.81 per cent in F2012, F2013, and F2014 respectively.
B1 – page 31 (PDF)
18 The F11 RRA proceeding concluded on December 2, 2010 when the BCUC
19 approved, by Order No. G-180-10, a Negotiated Settlement Agreement
20 (F11 RRA NSA). The BCUC approved an average rate increase of 6.11 per cent
21 effective April 1, 2010 with a 4.71 per cent credit rider applied for the period
22 January 1, 2011 to March 31, 2011 to reflect NSA adjustments. The BCUC also
23 approved the setting of the DARR at 4 per cent for the period April 1, 2010 to
24 December 31, 2010 and 2.5 per cent thereafter. The net bill impact of these changes
25 was an annualized increase of 7.29 per cent as compared to F2010.

The Clean Air act takes away

the Public Utilities Act  ( and your rights? )


http://www.leg.bc.ca/39th2nd/1st_read/gov17-1.htm#section17

BILL 17 — 2010

CLEAN ENERGY ACT

Smart meters

17 (1) In this section:

“private dwelling” means

(a) a structure that is occupied as a private residence, or

(b) if only part of a structure is occupied as a private residence, that part of the structure;

“smart grid” means the prescribed equipment;

“smart meter” means a meter that meets the prescribed requirements, and includes related components, equipment and metering and communication infrastructure that meet the prescribed requirements.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the authority must install and put into operation smart meters and related equipment in accordance with and to the extent required by the regulations.

(3) The authority must complete all obligations imposed under subsection (2) by the end of the 2012 calendar year.

(4) The authority must establish a program to install and put into operation a smart grid in accordance with and to the extent required by the regulations.

(5) The authority may, by itself, or by its engineers, surveyors, agents, contractors, subcontractors or employees, enter on any land, other than a private dwelling, without the consent of the owner, for a purpose relating to the use, maintenance, safeguarding, installation, replacement, repair, inspection, calibration or reading of its meters, including smart meters, or of its smart grid.

(6) If a public utility, other than the authority, makes an application under the Utilities Commission Act in relation to smart meters, other advanced meters or a smart grid, the commission, in considering the application, must consider the government’s goal of having smart meters, other advanced meters and a smart grid in use with respect to customers other than those of the authority.

BC Hydro Press Release April 28, 2010.

These specific clean-power procurement processes will not be put at risk or delayed. They will be exempt from unnecessary, costly and time-consuming reviews under the Utilities Commission Act. Yet they will still be subject to B.C. Utilities Commission oversight with respect to rate-setting requirements and to all existing environmental requirements and standards, as well as to the Crown’s constitutional obligations to First Nations.”

http://www.bchydro.com/news/articles/press_releases/2010/new_act_powers_bc_forward.html

Considering the Costs, compare what amounts

were spent on Privacy and Health Concerns in comparison to everything else

http://www.bchydro.com/news/articles/press_releases/2010/new_act_powers_bc_forward.html

BC Hydro Press April 28 2010

New Act powers B.C. forward with clean energy and jobs

VICTORIA, B.C. – British Columbia’s new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency, job creation and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, powered by unprecedented investments in clean, renewable energy across the province. Bill 17 builds upon British Columbia’s unique heritage advantages and wealth of clean, renewable energy resources.

http://www.bchydro.com/etc/medialib/internet/documents/smi/smi_business_case.Par.0001.File.smi_business_case.pdf

BC Hydro Business Case / Budget

Page 13 – Customer research engadgement and outreach = 8.6 million

Page 13 –  Safety Security and Privacy = 1.1 million


BC Hydro is being made to go bankrupt and they come up with ludicrous schemes like the smart meters to recoup the cost being thrown away to the Independent Power Producers. and to make all this work,


Why Gordon Campbell’s ‘Smart Meters’ Are Dumb:

If we have a Billion Dollars to invest in energy conservation,

Is this where to start?

By Jim Quail, 5 Jul 2010, TheTyee.ca

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/07/05/SmartMeters/

Interested in this issue :


Jim Quail

Executive Director,  BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre

Suite 208 – 1090 West Pender Street, Vancouver BC V6E 2N7

Tel: 604-687-3034   Email: [email protected] ;  [email protected]; ekung@bcpiac.

Representing : The BC Old Age Pensioners Organization et al. (BCOAPO)

Articles

Thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/07/05/SmartMeters/ http://thetyee.ca/Bios/Jim_Quail/

http://jimquail.com/2010/07/22/dumb-meters-how-gordon-campbell-wants-you-to-waste-a-billion-dollars/

Globaltvbc.com/technology/Rich+Coleman+warns+Hydro+Justify+rate+increases+smart+meters/4452618/story.html

Vancouversun.com/Public+interest+group+challenge+BCHydro+rate+increases/4339870/story.html

April 13, 2011 – CKNW, Joshua Hart and Jim Quail   youtube.com/watch?v=NBv5FhWOuD8

May 10, 2011  – CKNW, Jim Quail  youtube.com/watch?v=ibZLECeSlBU

John Horgan

Energy Critic

NDP MLA for Juan de Fuca

www.bcndpcaucus.ca/en/mla/john_horgan

Rich Coleman

New B.C. Energy Minister Rich Coleman cautioned BC Hydro to justify their proposed rate hike

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=1A796C36-1A64-6A71-CE9E2FB65F221D43

Vancouversun.com/technology/Rich+Coleman+warns+Hydro+Justify+rate+increases+smart+meters/4452618/story.html

[email protected]

Erik Anderson

https://emrabc.ca/?p=2479

howbadtherecord.blogspot.com/2009/08/economist-eric-anderson-on-hydro-and.html


Mike Smyth

Twitter.com/#!/mikesmythnews

cknw.com/shows/the_mike_smyth_show.aspx

The Province.com – Smart meters hike Hydro bills

April 13, 2011 – CKNW, Joshua Hart and Jim Quail   youtube.com/watch?v=NBv5FhWOuD8

May 10, 2011  – CKNW, Jim Quail  youtube.com/watch?v=ibZLECeSlBU


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