B.C. Utilities Commission Request for Comments

...on the 2-tier electricity rates in B.C.
You have only until November 24th to submit your Letter of Comment on hydro rates that comprise the Tier 1 and Tier 2 pricing.

The Google search on the request for comments took me to a website from Bowen Island, and provides some good information.  Presumably residents on the island(s) have no access to natural gas, and are severely affected by high hydro rates.

I did provide my comments already--albeit almost 6 years ago--and also included a reply from then-minister Lekstrom.  The 2010 blog entry was re-sent today to the BCUC.

Why the call for comments?

Obviously, electricity rates are going to keep increasing.

But while there is no hint of it, methinks that the B.C.U.C. is planning to implement Time of Use rates in British Columbia, much like the system currently in place in Ontario.

Before commenting on your personal situation on hydro rates, it may be helpful to read the following excellent entries by blogger Norman Farrell:  private power purchases 2005-2016, which provides information on the types of customers hydro has, and a sub-blog (Tyee) that Norm Farrell has included because of the huge amounts of money that are "at stake here", and the many articles that Norm has penned regarding huge cost overruns on Hydro's Site C dam.

"We'll run the dishwasher and the washing machine at 2 a.m.," Kia would've suggested "to save money, which W.A.C. Bennett would never have seen in our future."

An appropriate graphic for ToU energy use.  Source:  Twitter

Family members will take turns as night owls, thanks in part to the B.C. Government's insatiable appetite for revenue.

The BCUC "comments" initiative may state it's regarding the current Step 1 and Step 2 tiered electricity rates, but results WILL lead to Time of Use electricity rates for British Columbia.