Our mandate
Our mandate
Clean electricity today—and for the future
It's our job to provide low-cost, reliable electricity. Through the CleanPower 2040 process, we'll consider important and sometimes competing objectives. We'll plan our system in accordance with good utility practice and consider provincial policy objectives, such as:
- Minimize costs (generally lower costs mean lower rates).
- Minimize land and water impacts.
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Maximize economic development opportunities.
- Provide economic development opportunities for rural and Indigenous communities.
CleanPower 2040 will consider government policy such as the CleanBC plan, and policy outcomes of the current comprehensive review of BC Hydro.
Legislation that will guide our plan includes B.C.'s Utilities Commission Act and the Clean Energy Act. As a crown corporation, we must file our plan with the BC Utilities Commission for review and acceptance. We expect to file it in September 2021.
Learn more
- The Province's plan to encourage us to choose clean and renewable electricity is known as CleanBC.
- The interim report of Phase 2 of the Comprehensive Review of BC Hydro provides an update on how we could leverage B.C.'s clean hydroelectricity to meet the Province's climate goals, support economic development, and make life more affordable.
- Our planning is guided by the British Columbia Utilities Commission Act and the Clean Energy Act.
