Economic Indicators

BC Hydro's economic indicators provide the financial picture of the company. They measure direct economic impacts to customers, suppliers, employees, and provider of capital (the Province of BC). Performance against targets established in BC Hydro's Service Plan is measured each year, and performance is benchmarked against relevant industry standards and historical performance, where they exist. Consistent with a triple-bottom line approach to business, BC Hydro also attempts to measure the indirect economic impact of our activities.

Alignment Key
	means	Yes, good BC Hydro alignment with GRI
	means	Yes, partial BC Hydro alignment with GRI
	means	No BC Hydro alignment with GRI

New indicators appear in Bold.

Tier 1 measures are "Measure and Manage" metrics that appear in the Service Plan
Tier 2 measures are also "Measure and Manage" but in addition to those in the Service Plan
Tier 3 measures are "experimental" or "monitor only". They are either being evaluated for potential future development or are being run to gather baseline data for future use as Tier 2.

Direct Economic Impacts
BCH No.	BC Hydro 2003/04 Performance Measures	Tier	2002 GRI Performance Measures	GRI No.
Customers
EC1(1)	Net Income	1	Net Income.	EC1
EC1(2)	Sales Volume	2
EC1(3)	Trade Revenue	2
EC2(3)	Billed Sales by Region	2	Geographic breakdown of markets.	EC2
Suppliers
EC3(1)	Total Operation, Maintenance, and Administration Cost	1	Cost of all goods, services, and materials purchased.	EC3
EC3(2)	COMA per Customer	1
EC3(3)	Sustaining Capital Ratio	1
EC3(5)	Cost per Megawatt Hour Generated	1
EC3(6)	OMA per GWh-km	1
EC3(7)	Commercial Performance	1
EC3(8,10)	Asset Health Risk Index	1
EC3(9)	Achieving Transmission Capacity Offered	1
	Not Tracked and Not Reported		Percentage of contracts paid according to agreed terms.	EC4
	Not Reported (under consideration)		Supplier breakdown by organization and country.	EC11
Employees
EC5(1)	Total Payroll and Total Benefits, by Region	2	Total payroll and total benefits, broken down by country or region.	EC5
Providers of Capital
EC6(1)	Payment to Province	1	Distributions to providers of capital, broken down by interest on debt and borrowings.	EC6
EC6(2)	Net Long-Term debt	1
EC1(1)	Net Income	1	Increase or decrease in net earnings at end of period.	EC7
EC7(2)	Return on Equity	1
Public Sector
EC8(1)	Taxes	2	Total sum of taxes of all types paid, by country.	EC8
	No Subsidies Received	2	Subsidies received, by country or region.	EC9
EC10(1)	Corporate/Regional Donations	2	Donations to community, civil society and other groups by cash and in-kind donations per type of group.	EC10
EC10(2)	Employee (HYDRECS) Donations	2
EC12 (1)	Total Spending with Significant Indirect Economic Impacts	2	Total spent on non-core business infrastructure development.	EC12
Indirect Economic Impacts
EC12 (1)	Total Spending with Significant Indirect Economic Impacts	2	The organization's indirect economic impacts (externalities).	EC13