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Business Practices

The business practices listed below provide policy and procedures for doing business with BC Hydro and include specific detail and/or clarification on the implementation of the Open Access Transmission Tariff. Please subscribe for the updates and refer to the posted bulletins.

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Short Term Business Practices

Format Title Last Updated
(PDF, 548KB) Becoming a BC Hydro Transmission Customer 2010 Dec 1
(PDF, 0.9MB) TTC / ATC 2011 Nov 25
(PDF, 164KB) Posting of Transmission Service Offerings 2011 Jun 23
(PDF, 565KB) Submitting a Short Term Transmission Service Request 2010 Dec 1
(PDF, 112KB) Intra-Hour Scheduling of Transmission and Energy 2011 Sep 20
(PDF, 0.9MB) Processing of Short Term Transmission Service Requests 2010 Dec 1
(PDF, 551KB) Redirect of a Transmission Reservation 2010 Dec 1
(PDF, 385KB) Resale and Transfer of Transmission Rights 2010 Dec 1
(PDF,162 KB) Submitting Energy Schedules 2011 June 15
(PDF, 239KB) Processing of Energy Schedules 2010 Dec 1
(PDF, 634KB) Curtailment of Transmission and Energy 2010 Dec 1
(PDF, 477KB) Ancillary Services 2010 Dec 31
(PDF, 547KB) Network Economy 2010 Dec 1

Settlements & Billing

Format Title Last Updated
(PDF, 0.9KB) Settlements and Billing                                                                    2010 Dec 1

Long Term Business Practices

Format Title and Description Last Updated

(PDF, 199KB)

(PDF, 399KB)

Conditional Firm Service (CFS)

Submitting a Long Term Transmission Service Request

2011 Mar 10

2010 Dec 1

(PDF, 153KB)

Processing of a Long Term Point-to-Point Transmission Service Request 2011 Mar 31

(PDF, 566KB)

Rollover of a Long Term Transmission Reservation 2010 Dec 1

(PDF, 212KB)

Designation of New Network Resources 2010 Dec 1

(PDF, 310KB)

Open Season 2010 Dec 1
(PDF, 533KB) Performance Metrics and Penalties - Study for Transmission Service Requests 2010 Dec 1

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