FortisBC Inc. (FortisBC) Application for a Certificate of Public ...

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FortisBC Inc. (FortisBC or the Company)
Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
for the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project
Response to British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC or the Commission)
115.0 Reference: Project Environment
Response:
Information Request (IR) No. 1
Exhibit No. B-1, Tab 8.0, Section 8.2.3, pp. 128-130
Service Territory Restriction
115.1 Explain why FEI would be considering AMR.
Submission Date:
October 5, 2012
Page 282
FEI would be considering AMR as a way to lower customer costs and improve customer
service.
Response:
115.2 Provide the list of reporting options available to the Commission.
Provincial utilities that have deployed AMI will be able to provide more granular hourly load data
for regulatory processes. This will allow consistently accurate reporting from utilities for loadrelated
data such as:
• Load profiles by customer class;
• Unbilled consumption;
• Load data for cost-of-service and rate design; and
• System loss reporting.
Response:
115.3 What is the cost of “scaling” to accommodate other utilities within the FortisBC
service territory?
As stated at Exhibit B-1, Tab 8.0 Section 8.3, p. 130, lines 22-25, “The Company expects that
participating utilities would purchase meters and pay a contribution toward the communications
network devices and any necessary IT work to connect their meters to the AMI system.”