Public consultation

Public and customer consultation

Through our Clean Power 2040 public engagement, we heard from more than 6,000 British Columbians through surveys and virtual engagement sessions. Your input helped us develop our 2021 Integrated Resource Plan [PDF, 3.0 MB]

You can read how we considered and incorporated your input in Chapter 4 of our Application to the BC Utilities Commission [PDF, 522 KB]

What we heard from you

Below you'll find the summary reports, along with the presentation decks and summary notes from the various public and customer consultation activities we undertook through the two phases of our Clean Power 2040 engagement.

Phase one: Input to the plan

Through the fall and winter of 2020/2021, we listened to your input as we developed the draft Integrated Resource Plan through surveys, webinars, and workshops.

Read the Fall 2020 report: gathering customer and public input [PDF, 603 KB]

Online engagement surveys (September 14, 2020 to January 3, 2021)

Short survey results summary [PDF, 368 KB]
Long survey results summary [PDF, 420 KB]

Digital Dialogue (online focus group) (September 23 & 24, 2020)

Summary report [PDF, 5.14 MB]

Local Government Regional Webinars (December 7 to 14, 2020)

North - Presentation [PDF, 696 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 125 KB]
North - Presentation [PDF, 696 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 127 KB]
Interior - Presentation [PDF, 617 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 154 KB]
Lower Mainland - Presentation [PDF, 572 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 183 KB]
Vancouver Island - Presentation [PDF, 572 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 155 KB]

Public Workshops

December 15, 2020 - Presentation [PDF, 905 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 384 KB]
December 17, 2020 - Presentation [PDF, 924 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 430 KB]
January 14, 2021 - Presentation [PDF, 924 KB] Summary notes [PDF, 399 KB]

Telephone Town Hall (February 2, 2021)

Summary notes [PDF, 216 KB]

Youth Engagement (February 2, 2021)

Presentation [PDF, 886 KB]
Summary report [PDF, 1.95 MB]

Phase two: Feedback on our draft plan

Through the summer of 2021, we listened to your feedback on our draft Integrated Resource Plan through surveys, webinars, and workshops.

Read the Summer 2021 public and customer consultation report

Public and customer consultation – summer 2021 events:

Online engagement surveys

Survey results summary [PDF, 1.7 MB] (September 7, 2021)

Telephone town hall (July 6, 2021)

Summary notes [PDF, 281 KB]

Local government webinars

Presentation [PDF, 882 KB]
Webinar 1 (July 6, 2021) – Summary notes [PDF, 291 KB]
Webinar 2 (July 14, 2021) – Summary notes [PDF, 207 KB]
Webinar 3 (July 23, 2021) – Summary notes [PDF, 229 KB]

Public workshop (July 12, 2021)

Presentation [PDF, 893 KB]
Summary notes [PDF, 285 KB]

Organization presentations and submissions

Presentation [PDF, 782 KB]
- Metro Vancouver, Regional Engineers Advisory Committee – Climate Protection subcommittee (July 15, 2021)
- BC Business Council (July 19, 2021)
- Local Government EV Peer Network (July 20, 2021)
- Columbia Basin Advisory Council (July 21, 2021)
- Peace Williston Advisory Committee (August 2, 2021)
Organizations’ written submissions [PDF, 2.55 MB]

Digital Dialogue (online focus group) (July 20 to 22, 2021)

Summary report [PDF, 2 MB]

Youth Engagement (August 31, 2021)

Presentation [PDF, 525 KB]
Summary Report [PDF, 1.82 MB]