2025 Integrated Resource Plan
We're planning for a bright electricity future for B.C.
Safely delivering reliable, affordable, clean electricity to British Columbians is our priority. Our integrated resource plan prepares us for a number of potential future scenarios. It's a flexible plan that allows us to monitor changing conditions to ensure we can continue to support economic growth and meet the evolving needs of our customers.
Share your feedback
Now until July 28, 2025, we're inviting the public to take our survey to share feedback on elements of our 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The survey will walk you through an assessment of B.C.'s future energy needs, the steps we plan to take to meet those needs, and ask for your input on each. For a preview, refer to our summary below.
Your valuable feedback will help us refine our plan, which we'll file with the B.C. Utilities Commission by October 31, 2025.
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Summary of our 2025 Integrated Resource Plan
Our 2025 Integrated Resource Plan outlines our plans for how we'll meet B.C.'s future electricity needs. It includes the projects and programs we'll need, when we'll need them, and how much energy and capacity they'll provide.
Since our last plan update in 2023, global uncertainty and economic shifts—like new and potential tariffs—have reshaped our planning landscape. We're committed to supporting a strong economy and a clean energy future while keeping electricity affordable for British Columbians.
Key aspects of the Plan
Our 2025 Integrated Resource Plan will meet future energy needs through:
- We're advancing our conservation and energy management programs and optional time-varying rates initiatives, extending a foundational part of the last long-term plan.
- We're also advancing our multi-year solar and battery storage rebate program, which is expected to provide 800 gigawatt-hours per year (GWh/year) of energy by 2034 – enough to power 80,000 households each year.
- In 2024, we initiated an acquisition process, or Call for Power, to gather competitive bids from industry and First Nations communities who are interested in generating clean, renewable, and affordable power to meet our future needs. Through this, we awarded 10 Electricity Purchase Agreements that will provide nearly 5,000 (GWh/year) of clean, renewable electricity to our grid.
- Our 2025 Call for Power aims to acquire up to 5,000 GWh/year of additional clean and renewable energy by 2034 and we expect to award Electricity Purchase Agreements (EPAs) in early 2026.
- Advancing the addition of a sixth generating unit at our Revelstoke Generating Station by its earliest in-service date, which is projected to provide an additional 500 MW.
- Preparing for upgrades to our generating units 1 through 5 at the GM Shrum Generating Station if needed for later in the planning horizon, which is projected to provide another 100 MW.
- These upgrades will enhance our ability to provide cost-effective, dependable electricity and combined will add about 5% to our overall hydroelectric power generation.
- Advancing a second transmission line that will run parallel to the existing 500 kilovolt line from Prince George to Terrace in northwest B.C.
- Undertaking upgrades to the existing line in northwest B.C. to enable industrial and related development in the northwest, which will support B.C.'s economy and diversification of trade.
- Preparing for the next stage of transmission reinforcement from the Lower Mainland to Vancouver Island, if electricity demand grows to be higher or sooner than expected.
- Preparing for the second step of transmission upgrades into the South Coast region after step one was initiated as part of the 2021 Integrated Resource Plan. This second step will only be needed if electricity demand grows to be higher or sooner than expected.
- We're planning for additional firm power sources that can meet the province’s electricity needs during peak times, such as on cold winter evenings.
- In the short term, we're preparing to install large-scale batteries in the South Coast region if backup power is needed during peak times while upgrades to our generating facilities are underway.
- In the longer term, we'll explore what new firm sources will be available to us, which could include resources such as geothermal and pumped storage to provide firm power when customers need it and serve as back-up power to wind and solar resources.
Our mandate
It's our job to safely provide reliable, affordable, clean electricity throughout B.C. Through our long-term planning process, we consider important and sometimes competing objectives.
See our past plans
While we're committed to updating our integrated resource plan on a more regular basis, you can still find plans we've completed in the past.
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