Bulletin Index 2006

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Title	Bulletin Date
dec31_oati_down	December 31, 11:46 a.m.
OASIS and eTag Outage	December 31, 2:17 p.m.
OATI and eTag Outage Over	December 31, 2:12 p.m.
Posting of Daily Settlements Reports	December 20, 2:19 p.m.
eTag Changes Effective January 3, 2007	December 20, 2:10 p.m.
Posting of Daily Settlements Report	December 15, 2:08 p.m.
Loss Compensation Service – Customer Consultation	December 15, 11:20 a.m.
Long-Term Contract Rollover Rights and Competing Requests - UPDATE	December 14, 1:44 p.m.
System Outage is Over	December 13, 6:07 p.m.
System Outage	December 13, 4:54 p.m.
Automation of Dynamic Scheduling	December 13, 4:52 p.m.
Successful Posting of Daily Settlement Reports	December 13, 3:03 p.m.
Updated Extended Windows for Christmas and New Years Day	December 10, 3:14 p.m.
Posting of Daily Settlements Report	December 8, 5:40 p.m.
Extended Windows for Christmas and New Years Day	December 6, 4:55 p.m.
Summary Report	December 5, 11:12 a.m.
eTag Outage	December 2, 2:18 p.m.
OASIS and eTag Outage	November 30, 5:49 p.m.
Long-Term Contract Rollover Rights and Competing Requests - Update	November 30, 3:02 p.m.
OASIS and eTag Outage	November 20, 2:16 p.m.
Extended Windows for Thanksgiving Day	November 9, 11:00 a.m.
Long-Term Contract Rollover Rights and Competing Requests	November 6, 10:39 a.m.
Firm ATC Update	November 6, 4:48 p.m.
FTTC Calculation Update	November 6, 4:24 p.m.
OASIS and eTag Outage	November 3, 4:03 p.m.
OASIS and eTag Outage	October 27, 4:02 p.m.
Loss Compensation Service – Soliciting Customer Comments	October 26, 9:44 a.m.
Extended Windows for Veteran's Day	October 25, 3:51 p.m.
Educational Workshops and Holiday Social	October 19, 3:54 p.m.
Mixed Class Wheelthroughs - Issue Resolved	October 13, 1:09 p.m.
Mixed Class Wheelthroughs	October 12, 4:30 p.m.
New Report Posted to BCTC Website	October 11, 2:10 p.m.
Information Release Posting	October 4, 12:25 p.m.
5L92 Outage Deferred	October 2, 5:05 p.m.
Revised Revelstoke 5 Integration Report	September 29, 2:12 p.m.
OASIS problem fixed	September 11, 7:59 a.m.
OASIS outage Sept 10	September 10, 8:02 p.m.
FTTC Calculation	September 1, 2:16 p.m.
Increase in AB-BC Firm Transfer Limit	August 31, 5:16 p.m.

dec31_oati_down

Posted on December 31 , 11:46 a.m.

OATI system down. BCTC on backup procedures. OATI provider is working on a fix.

OASIS and eTag Outage

Posted on December 31 , 2:17 p.m.

OATI is currently experiencing techincal difficulties with both OASIS and eTag systems. As a result, back up procedures are in effect for both pre-schedule and real-time operations. Please refer to Section 13 entitled Backup Procedures for Scheduling System Outages for details. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

OATI and eTag Outage Over

Posted on December 31 , 2:12 p.m.

BCTC is pleased to report that both OASIS and eTag are back in service. Please resume normal scheduling procedures as per our Business Practices for both real-time and pre-schedule. Thank you for your patience.

Posting of Daily Settlements Reports

Posted on December 20 , 2:19 p.m.

As a followup to the bulletin posted on December 15, 2006 at 2:08 pm, BCTC has resolved the problem with the posting of customers’ Daily Settlement Reports. These reports are now posted for customer review.

eTag Changes Effective January 3, 2007

Posted on December 20 , 2:10 p.m.

The revised eTag specification, version 1.7.097 was finalized by the Joint Interchange Scheduling Work Group (JISWG), and was approved by the NERC Interchange Subcommittee (IS) on November 15, 2006, with subsequent clarifications approved via email on November 21, 2006. The changes to the eTag specifications as set out by NERC will become effective January 3, 2007 at 9 AM PST. Specifically, Transmission Providers and Balancing Authorities must actively approve all eTags. Entities will no longer have the option to allow an eTag to be passively approved. If the required approving entity on the tag does not actively approve the tag within the requisite time period, the tag will be passively denied.

This change to tag approval is significant and BCTC wanted to duly inform its customers of potential impacts. For more information please see the NERC website http://reg.tsin.com/Tagging/e-tag/.

Posting of Daily Settlements Report

Posted on December 15 , 2:08 p.m.

We are experiencing technical difficulties in posting customers' Daily Settlement Reports to our website. Therefore, we are investigating this issue and hope to resolve it early next week. We will post another bulletin once this issue is resolved. Thank you for your patience regarding this matter and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Loss Compensation Service – Customer Consultation

Posted on December 15 , 11:20 a.m.

Further to the bulletin posted on October 26 at 9:44 am, BCTC is pleased to announce that it will be holding a consultation on its Loss Compensation Service as follows:

Date: January 15, 2007

Time: 8:30 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Customer Briefing

Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel

Prince of Wales Room, 3rd Floor

655 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC

Tel: 604-683-1234

Purpose: 1. Review customer input received to date

2. Review BCTC’s proposed design for self supplying losses

3. Develop alternatives

BCTC encourages its transmission customers to attend this consultation as BCTC will be soliciting customer feedback on solutions for implementing mandatory self-supply of losses as directed by the BCUC in its June 20, 2005 OATT Decision.

RSVP to Brenda Ambrosi by January 2, 2007 via email at brenda.ambrosi@bctc.com.

Long-Term Contract Rollover Rights and Competing Requests - UPDATE

Posted on December 14 , 1:44 p.m.

BPAT-BCTC-AESO Paths Competing Processes
:

BCTC has received confirmations from the BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 Competing Request, CRGL's BPAT-AESO Competing Request, and BCPS's BCTC-AESO-2 Competing Request of their acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffers.

In the bulletin dated 30 November at 3:02 pm, BCTC indicated that it would inform TCP and NRPT on 18 December that they are required to match a term at least equal to that of the applicable Competing Request. In the interest of time, BCTC will inform TCP and NRPT of such requirement today, 14 December.

System Outage is Over

Posted on December 13 , 6:07 p.m.

Effective immediately, BCTC Scheduling Application, OASIS and eTag are all back in service. Please resume normal scheduling procedures as per our Business Practices for both real-time and pre-schedule.

System Outage

Posted on December 13 , 4:54 p.m.

Please be advised that there will be a short scheduled outage to TSS, OASIS and eTag systems from 17:50 to 18:05 PPT on Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Please revert to Section 13 entitled Backup Procedures for Scheduling System Outages during this time period for both pre-schedule and real-time operations. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you, in advance, for your cooperation regarding this matter.

Automation of Dynamic Scheduling

Posted on December 13 , 4:52 p.m.

BCTC is pleased to announce that it has automated its Dynamic Scheduling functionality effective December 13th, 2006 6:05 PM. Customers will no longer be required to submit the Dynamic Scheduling Transmission Fax Request Form to secure their Firm transmission for a dynamic E-tag. From this point forward, customers can link their dynamic E-tags directly to the OASIS Reference ID of their Firm transmission request using ETS and OASIS, respectively. BCTC has amended Section 11.6 of its Business Practices to reflect the new process for submitting Dynamic Schedules. If there are any questions regarding Dynamic Scheduling, please feel free to contact Raj Hundal at 604-699-7475.

Successful Posting of Daily Settlement Reports

Posted on December 13 , 3:03 p.m.

As a followup to the bulletin posted on December 8, 2006 at 5:40 pm, BCTC has resolved the problem with the posting of customers’ Daily Settlement Reports. These reports are now posted for customer review.

Updated Extended Windows for Christmas and New Years Day

Posted on December 10 , 3:14 p.m.

Market Operations has updated the opening of the extended windows for purchasing transmission during Christmas, December 25, 2006, and New Years Day, January 1, 2007. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Extended Windows for Christmas Day (DOC, 59KB)
Extended Windows for New Years Day (DOC, 59KB)

Posting of Daily Settlements Report

Posted on December 8 , 5:40 p.m.

Extended Windows for Christmas and New Years Day

Posted on December 6 , 4:55 p.m.

Market Operations is pleased to visually clarify the opening of the extended windows for purchasing transmission during Christmas, December 25, 2006, and New Years Day, January 1, 2007.

Extended Windows for Christmas Day (DOC, 59KB) Extended Windows for New Years Day (DOC, 59KB)

Summary Report

Posted on December 5 , 11:12 a.m.

BCTC has prepared a Summary of BCTC Report on Rate Design Alternatives , for informational purposes on the BCTC Report on Rate Design Alternatives (Report) which BCTC will file with the Commission pursuant to Commission’s Order G-58-05. This summary is prepared in response to customer inquiries regarding the topics covered in the Report and its general approach. This summary does not provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the Report findings, nor does it provide the results of analyses presented in the Report. BCTC is not soliciting comments on the Report at this time. Instead, BCTC will propose a consultation process in the Report. For further information and questions, please contact Janet Fraser, Manager of Market Operations at (604) 699-7318.

eTag Outage

Posted on December 2 , 2:18 p.m.

Please be advised that there will be a short scheduled outage to eTag system from 12:50 to 13:05 PPT on Monday, December 4, 2006. Please revert to Section 13 entitled Backup Procedures for Scheduling System Outages during this time period for both pre-schedule and real-time operations. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you, in advance, for your cooperation regarding this matter.

OASIS and eTag Outage

Posted on November 30 , 5:49 p.m.

Please be advised that there will be a short scheduled outage to OASIS and eTag systems from 19:30 to 19:45 PPT on Thursday, November 30, 2006. Please revert to Section 13 entitled Backup Procedures for Scheduling System Outages during this time period for both pre-schedule and real-time operations. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you, in advance, for your cooperation regarding this matter.

Long-Term Contract Rollover Rights and Competing Requests - Update

Posted on November 30 , 3:02 p.m.

AESO-BCTC Path Competing Process

BCPS did not confirm its acceptance of BCTC's 10 November Counteroffer to its 6-year Point-to-Point Transmission Competing Request, OASIS #70872095, for 1000MW on the AESO-BCTC Path. Therefore, the Competing Process for this path ended on 24 November 2007. BCTC is awarding the ATC to OASIS Requests for this path in accordance with its OATT and Business Practices.

BPAT-BCTC-AESO Paths Competing Processes

BCPS did not confirm its acceptance of BCTC's 14 November Counteroffer to its 6-year Point-to-Point Transmission Competing Request, OASIS #70872097, for 2000MW on the BPAT-BCTC path.

As indicated in the 6 November Bulletin, BCTC will conduct additional Competing Processes for other Competing Requests. The following describes the steps BCTC will use to continue the Competing Processes for this path:

1. On 30 November 2006, BCTC will notify BCPS, CRGL, TCP and NRPT of the Competing Process.

2. On 1 December 2006, BCTC will counteroffer:

BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 Competing Request 100MW for 1 January 2007 to 1 January 2009;
CRGL's BPAT-AESO Competing Request 25MW for 1 January 2007 to 1 January 2011, subject to BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 fails to confirm its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer; and
BCPS's BCTC-AESO-2 and BCTC-AESO-3 Competing Requests for 50MW each for 1 January 2007 to 1 January 2012, subject to both BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 and CRGL fail to confirm their acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffers.

BCPS and CRGL have until HE24 on 15 December 2006 to Confirm their acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffers. (Please see Business Practice Section 16.5.e for details.)

3. If BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 Confirms its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer by the specified timeline, on 18 December 2006, BCTC will notify:

TCP that it is required, in accordance with the OATT and subject to any Rollover Rights limitations, to match a term at least equal to 2 years for the TCP Rollover Request; and
NRPT that it is required, for both NRPT's Rollover Requests, in accordance with the OATT and subject to any Rollover Rights limitations to match a term at least equal to 2 years.

4. On or before 21 December 2006,

TCP may submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 2 years; and
NRPT may submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 2 years for one or both of NRPT's Rollover Requests.

5. Competing Process ends. BCTC will Accept the Competing Request and Rollover Matching Requests in accordance with the OATT and Business Practice Section 16.

6. If BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 fails to confirm its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer, and CRGL confirms its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer, by the specified timeline, on 18 December 2006, BCTC will notify:

TCP that it is required, in accordance with the OATT and subject to any Rollover Rights limitations, to match a term at least equal to 4 years subject to NRPT submitting a Rollover Matching Request, and that it is required to submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 4 years in order to preserve all of its existing Rollover Rights for future Rollover Requests; and
NRPT that it is required, for both NRPT's Rollover Requests, in accordance with the OATT and subject to any Rollover Rights limitations to match:

a 2-year term subject to TCP submitting a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 4 years; and
a term at least equal to 4 years subject to TCP not submitting a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 4 years.

7. On or before 21 December 2006:

TCP may choose the following options:

TCP1: to do nothing;
TCP2: to submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 4 years; and
TCP3: to submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 4 years subject to NRPT choosing option NRPT2.

NRPT may choose, for one or both NRPT's Rollover Requests, the following options:

NRPT1: to do nothing; and
NRPT2: to submit a Rollover Matching Request with:

a 2-year term subject to TCP submitting a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 4 years; and
a term at least equal to 4 years subject to TCP not submitting a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 4 years.

8. Competing Process ends. BCTC will Accept the Competing Request and Rollover Matching Requests in accordance with the OATT and Business Practice Section 16.

9. If both BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 and CRGL fail to confirm their acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffers, by the specified timeline, the Competing Process ends for TCP. TCP does not have to match.

10. If both BCPS's BCTC-AESO-1 and CRGL fail to confirm their acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffers, and one of the BCPS's BCTC-AESO-2 and BCTC-AESO-3 confirm its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer, by the specified timeline, on 18 December 2006, BCTC will notify NRPT that it is required, for both NRPT's Rollover Requests, in accordance with the OATT and subject to any Rollover Rights limitations to match a term at least equal to 5 years.

11. On or before 21 December 2006, NRPT may submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request with a term at least equal to 5 years, subject to any Rollover Rights limitations, for one or both of NRPT's Rollover Requests.

12. Competing Process ends. BCTC will Accept the Competing Request and Rollover Matching Requests in accordance with the OATT Business Practice Section 16.

OASIS and eTag Outage

Posted on November 20 , 2:16 p.m.

Please be advised that there will be a short scheduled outage to OASIS and eTag systems from 19:15 to 19:30 PPT on Monday, November 20, 2006. Please revert to Section 13 entitled Backup Procedures for Scheduling System Outages during this time period for both pre-schedule and real-time operations. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you, in advance, for your cooperation regarding this matter.

Extended Windows for Thanksgiving Day

Posted on November 9 , 11:00 a.m.

Market Operations is pleased to visually clarify the opening of the extended windows for purchasing transmission during Thanksgiving, November 23, 2006.

Extended Windows for Thanksgiving Day (DOC, 58KB)

Long-Term Contract Rollover Rights and Competing Requests

Posted on November 6 , 10:39 a.m.

AESO-BCTC Path Competing Process

On 30 June 2006, BCPS submitted a 6-year Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request, OASIS #70872095, for 1000MW on AESO-BCTC path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the AESO-BCTC Competing Request.

On 30 October 2006, BCPS submitted a 1-year Rollover Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request, OASIS #71070560, for 101MW on AESO-BCTC path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the AESO-BCTC Competing Request.

BCTC has completed an evaluation of the Firm Transmission Capacity of the effective path http://www.bctc.com/NR/rdonlyres/5AD65BE7-8D5E-4C92-B5F0-CBEF1BCEAE6A/0/6Nov2006FirmATTUpdate.pdf, and determined that there is insufficient ATC to accommodate all service requests on this path.

Pursuant to BCTC's Business Practice Section 16, BCTC will start a Competing Process on 10 November 2006. The following describes steps BCTC will use for the Competing Process:

1. On 6 November 2006, BCTC will notify BCPS of the Competing Process.

2. On 10 November 2006, BCTC will Counter-offer BCPS's AESO-BCTC Competing Request 237MW for 1 January 2007 to 1 January 2013. BCPS has until HE24 on 24 November 2006 to Confirm it acceptance of BCTC's Counter-offer. (Please see Business Practice Section 16.5.e for details.)

3. If BCPS Confirms its acceptance of BCTC's Counter-offer to BCPS's AESO-BCTC Competing Request by the specified timeline, on the Business Date following the date BCPS submits to BCTC its confirmation of its acceptance of BCTC's Counter-off, BCTC will notify BCPS that it is required to match a 6-year term for the AESO-BCTC Rollover Request.

4. Within three Business Days after the day BCTC provides notices to BCPS, BCPS may submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request.

5. Competing Process ends. BCTC will Accept the Competing Request and Rollover Matching Requests in accordance with Business Practice Section 16.

BPAT-BCTC-AESO Paths Competing Processes

On 30 June 2006, BCPS submitted a 6-year Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request, OASIS #70872097, for 2000MW on BPAT-BCTC path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the BPAT-BCTC Competing Request.

On 12 July 2006, BCPS submitted a 2-year Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request, OASIS #70891978, for 100MW on BCTC-AESO-1 path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the BCTC-AESO Competing Request.

On 28 August 2006, CRGL submitted a 4-year Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request, OASIS #70974668, for 25MW on BPAT-AESO path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the BPAT-AESO Competing Request.

On 12 September 2006, TCP submitted a 1-year Rollover Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request, OASIS #70998033, for 100MW on BPAT-AESO path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the TCP Rollerover Request.

On 13 September 2006, BCPS submitted two 5-year Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request, OASIS #70999093 and OASIS #70999095, for 50MW each on BCTC-AESO path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the BCTC-AESO-2 and BCTC-AESO-3 Competing Requests.

On 13 September 2006, NRPTsubmitted two 1-year Rollover Point-to-Point Transmission Service Requests, OASIS #70999286 and #70999290, for 25MW each on BPAT-AESO path with Start Date of 1 January 2007, the NRPT Rollover Requests.

BCTC has completed an evaluation of the Firm Transmission Capacity of the effective paths http://www.bctc.com/NR/rdonlyres/5AD65BE7-8D5E-4C92-B5F0-CBEF1BCEAE6A/0/6Nov2006FirmATTUpdate.pdf, and determined that there is insufficient ATC to accommodate all service requests on those paths.

Pursuant to BCTC's Business Practice Section 16, BCTC will start a Competing Process on 14 November 2006. The following describes steps BCTC will use for the Competing Process:

1. On 6 November 2006, BCTC will notify BCPS, TCP and NRPT of the Competing Process.

2. On 14 November 2006, BCTC will Counteroffer BCPS's BPAT-BCTC Competing Request 159MW for 1 January 2007 to 1 January 2008, 158MW for 1 January 2008 to 1 January 2009, and 100MW for 1 January 2009 to 1 January 2013. BCPS has until HE24 on 28 November 2006 to Confirm its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer. (Please see Business Practice Section 16.5.e for details.)

3. If BCPS Confirms its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer to BCPS's BPAT-BCTC Competing Request by the specified timeline, on the Business Date following the date BCPS submits to BCTC its confirmation of its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer, BCTC will notify TCP that it is required to match a 6-year term for the TCP Rollover Request.

Simultaneously, BCTC will notify NRPT that it is required, for both NRPT Rollover Requests, to match:

a) a 6-year term subject to TCP declining to match a 6-year term for the TCP Rollover Request; and

b) a 2-year term subject to TCP agreeing to match the 6-year term for the TCP Rollover Request.

4. Within three Business Days after the day BCTC provides notices to TCP and NRPT:

- TCP may submit on OASIS a Rollover Matching Request; and

- NRPT may submit on OASIS Rollover Matching Request for one or both of NRPT Rollover Requests, for:

a) a 6-year term subject to TCP declining to match a 6-year term for the TCP Rollover Request; and

b) a 2-year term subject to TCP agreeing to match the 6-year term for the TCP Rollover Request.

5. Competing Process ends. BCTC will Accept the Competing Request and Rollover Matching Requests in accordance with Business Practice Section 16.

6. If BCPS fails to Confirm its acceptance of BCTC's Counteroffer to BCPS's BPAT-BCTC Competing Request by the specified timeline, BCTC will conduct additional Competing Processes for other Competing Requests. BCTC will provide further notices and detailed steps for such additional Competition Processes as soon as practicable.

Firm ATC Update

Posted on November 6 , 4:48 p.m.

BCTC recently completed an evaluation of the BCTC Transmission System and concluded for certain OASIS Paths that there are firm ATC. Please see http://www.bctc.com/NR/rdonlyres/5AD65BE7-8D5E-4C92-B5F0-CBEF1BCEAE6A/0/6Nov2006FirmATTUpdate.pdf for details.

FTTC Calculation Update

Posted on November 6 , 4:24 p.m.

Further to the bulletins posted on 1 September 2006 at 3:23 pm, BCTC has completed its investigations and confirms that Alberta to BC Firm TTC is 450 MW. BCTC will immediately release Alberta to BC monthly Firm TTC for January 2007 and beyond.

In addition, BCTC withdraws Report No. SPA2006-116 for the System Impact Study for OASIS

70688750 & 70688756.

OASIS and eTag Outage

Posted on November 3 , 4:03 p.m.

Please be advised that there will be a short scheduled outage to OASIS and eTag systems from 12:50 to 13:00 PPT on Monday, November 6, 2006. Please revert to Section 13 entitled Backup Procedures for Scheduling System Outages during this time period for both pre-schedule and real-time operations. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you, in advance, for your cooperation regarding this matter.

OASIS and eTag Outage

Posted on October 27 , 4:02 p.m.

Please be advised that there will be a short scheduled outage to OASIS and eTag systems from 12:50 pm to 1:10 pm on Monday, October 30, 2006. Please refrain from booking transmission reservations and eTags in both Preschedule and Real Time for this duration. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Loss Compensation Service – Soliciting Customer Comments

Posted on October 26 , 9:44 a.m.

The BCUC, in its June 20, 2005 OATT Decision, directed BCTC to remove Loss Compensation Service from its OATT and request customers to self-supply their losses. On February 10, 2006 BCTC filed, with the BCUC, a temporary one year Loss Compensation Service (Application) provided under its OATT that allows customers to elect self-supply of losses or have BCTC provide Loss Compensation Service for their schedules during the period from March 1, 2006 to March 1, 2007. Further, BCTC requested time to consult with its customers on the implementation of self-supply of losses. The BCUC approved BCTC's Application via Order No. G-18-06. To assist BCTC to respond to the BCUC, BCTC requests its customers to provide their feedback to Brenda Ambrosi on the following question by noon on Friday, November 3:

What has been your experience regarding the utilization and effectiveness of the temporary Loss Compensation Service?

In addition, BCTC will be planning customer consultation in January 2007 with the objective of soliciting customer feedback on solutions for implementing mandatory self-supply of losses as directed by the BCUC. Another bulletin will be posted once more information is available on the consultation

Extended Windows for Veteran's Day

Posted on October 25 , 3:51 p.m.

Market Operations is pleased to visually clarify the opening of the extended windows for purchasing transmission during Veteran's Day, November 10, 2006.

Extended Windows for Veteran's Day (DOC, 55KB)

Educational Workshops and Holiday Social

Posted on October 19 , 3:54 p.m.

BCTC invites you to attend four WTS educational workshops. Two "WTS Scheduling 101" workshops will be held on Monday, November 20 and 27 in Vancouver from 09:00 to 16:00 PPT. These workshops will provide an overview of short-term and long-term transmission service including customer registration, scheduling tools, TTC/ATC, transmission reservations and processing, designating transmission reservations to energy schedules, curtailments and interruptions, settlements and billing, and backup procedures.

The other two "WTS Displacements 201" workshops will be held on Tuesday, November 21 and 28 in Vancouver from 10:00 to 15:00 PPT. These workshops will educate participants on pre-schedule displacements, the displacement process and timelines, and the associated Business Practices.

These workshops will interest customers who wish to get a better understanding of WTS, pre-schedule displacements, and associated Business Practices and procedures.

Please join us for a drink and appetizers from 15:00 to 17:00 PPT on November 21 and 28 after the "WTS Displacements 201" workshops to celebrate the holiday season. Contact Brenda Ambrosi at 604-699-7391 if you would like more information on these events. We look forward to seeing you there!

Mixed Class Wheelthroughs - Issue Resolved

Posted on October 13 , 1:09 p.m.

Further to the bulletin posted on October 12 at 4:30 pm regarding difficulties in purchasing Mixed Class Wheelthrough service in real-time between HE17 and HE24, BCTC is pleased to report that this issue is now resolved and the interim workaround set out in the previously posted bulletin is now discontinued. Thank you for your patience regarding this matter.

Mixed Class Wheelthroughs

Posted on October 12 , 4:30 p.m.

Customers have recently reported difficulties purchasing Mixed Class Wheelthrough service in real-time between HE17 and HE24. BCTC is investigating this issue in pursuit of resolving it as quickly as possible. As a result of this disruption of service, BCTC will temporarily allow customers to call the Real-Time Scheduling desk at 604-473-2723 and request the Scheduler to enter a manual Mixed Class Wheelthrough transmission request if there is sufficient ATC posted for both legs of the transaction. The Scheduler will then provide the customer with a transmission reference number that can be used for submission of eTags.

BCTC will post another bulletin when the issue is resolved and this interim workaround is discontinued. Thank you for your patience regarding this matter. Please contact Brenda Ambrosi if you have any questions.

New Report Posted to BCTC Website

Posted on October 11 , 2:10 p.m.

BCTC has completed Report SPA 2006 -117 “South Interior Cut-Plane Reinforcement Justification Report” SPA 2006 -117. This report examines the committed use, total transfer capability, available transfer capability and develops several reinforcement options for the South Interior Network for BCTC’s Capital Plan.

Information Release Posting

Posted on October 4 , 12:25 p.m.

BCTC has provided an Information Release dated 4 October 2006 for the Interior to Lower Mainland Transmission Network giving preliminary planning information in response to BC Hydro’s Amended LTAP.

5L92 Outage Deferred

Posted on October 2 , 5:05 p.m.

The scheduled outage on 5L92 for October 3 to 5, 2006 has been deferred, and the TTC/ATC will be adjusted to reflect the deferred outage.

Revised Revelstoke 5 Integration Report

Posted on September 29 , 2:12 p.m.

BCTC has revised the Revelstoke 5 Integration report to include four additional questions and answers related to this report. The revision can be found at

http://www.bctc.com/NR/rdonlyres/773881B1-07A8-4D40-ABC1-0E617FD6B5C5/0/I414InfoReleaseRevelstokeG5IntegrationRev3TransSysReq.pdf

OASIS problem fixed

Posted on September 11 , 7:59 a.m.

BCTC OASIS problems have been rectified and normal real-time scheduling procedure has resumed effective 00:05 PST Sept. 11, 2006

OASIS outage Sept 10

Posted on September 10 , 8:02 p.m.

BCTC is currently experiencing problems with OASIS, effective Sept. 10, 2006 @ 19:30 PST. As a result, backup procedures will be in effect for real-time and pre-schedule until our system is restored. A subsequent bulletin will be posted when normal procedures can be followed.

FTTC Calculation

Posted on September 1 , 2:16 p.m.

BCTC has discovered some inaccuracy in the FTTC calculations between short-term and long-term on the AESO-BCTC path. As a result, BCTC is temporarily holding the incremental increase of FTTC on this path, as set out in the bulletin posted on August 31 at 5:16 pm, from October 1, 2006 to October 1, 2007.

Increase in AB-BC Firm Transfer Limit

Posted on August 31 , 5:16 p.m.

The Alberta to BC Firm TTC has increased from 300 MW to 450 MW effective midnight, September 1, 2006 as a result of the recent RAS implementation for 5L76 and 5L79. Section 2 of the Business Practices will be updated in the near future to reflect this change.