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VANCOUVER – BC Hydro's Electricity Conservation and Efficiency (EC&E) Advisory Committee has released its first annual report – featuring innovative recommendations that will encourage customers to make a dramatic and permanent reduction in their electricity use.

BC Hydro launched the Electricity Conservation & Efficiency Advisory Committee in September of 2006 to provide input and advice on BC Hydro's conservation and efficiency initiatives, as well as to generate new ideas to inspire a conservation culture in B.C.

The 23-member committee includes stakeholders and First Nations from across the province with a diverse range of perspectives and expertise. Their report stresses that BC Hydro will need to continue to be a catalyst for change in how British Columbians think about and use electricity.

Recommendations in the EC&E Advisory Committee report include a new strategic framework to support BC Hydro's ambitious conservation goals, the role BC Hydro should play in the development of codes and standards, such as building codes, as well as the barriers that must be addressed when designing programs that will support conservation.

BC Hydro welcomes the EC&E Advisory Committee's Annual Report [PDF, 505 Kb] as an endorsement of its commitment to achieve 50 per cent of the province's incremental electricity needs through conservation by 2020.