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General Wheeling Service Rates and Rate Schedule 3817

BC Hydro has an agreement with FortisBC (Rate Schedule 3817) for the wheeling of electricity over BC Hydro transmission lines, and fees are charged for that service.

The table below shows the annual Wheeling Rate to each Point of Interconnection, calculated as per Rate Schedule 3817 [PDF, 147 KB]. The Wheeling Rate is updated annually effective October 1 of each year, a process that started in 2007.

The rate adjustment below is Statistics Canada's B.C. Consumer Price Index annual rate of inflation for July of the calendar year in which the rate adjustment is made.
 

Wheeling Rate
($/MW)
Rate Adjustment
(%)

Point of Interconnection

Emergency Wheeling Rate
(¢/kWh)
  Creston Okanagan Princeton  
October 2013 0.0 13,411.12 20,578.55 54,874.45 0.110
October 2014 1.4 13,598.88 20,866.65 55,642.69 0.112
October 2015 1.0 13,734.87 21,075.32 56,199.12 0.113
October 2016 2.1 14,023.30
21,517.90
57,379.30
0.115
October 2017 1.9 14,289.74
21,926.74
58,469.51
0.117
October 2018 3.3 14,761.30
22,650.32
60,399.00
0.121
October 2019 2.1 15,071.29
23,125.98
61,667.38
0.124
October 2020 0.2 15,101.43
23,172.23
61,790.71
0.124
October 2021 3.1 15,569.57
23,890.57
63,706.22
0.128
October 2022 8.0 16,815.14
25,801.82
68,802.72
0.138
October 2023 3.0 17,319.59
26,575.87
70,866.80
0.142
October 2024 2.8 17,804.54
27,319.99
72,851.07
0.146