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)
Information Request (IR) No. 1
Submission Date:
October 5, 2012
Page 289
In total, 93 individuals attended the five open houses held in Kelowna, Osoyoos, Creston, Trail,
and Princeton in June of 2011 for the AMI project. In comparison for open houses held on the
Company’s recently filed “Guidelines for Establishing Entitlement to Non-PPA Embedded Cost
Power and Matching Methodology” there were five attendees in Kelowna and a single
participant in Castlegar. Those open houses were held on March 6 and March 8, 2012
respectfully.
FortisBC received 54 participants in four open houses held in Kelowna; Osoyoos; Creston and
Castlegar in February of 2011 during the Company’s consultation on the Integrated System
Plan.
Consultation on the Okanagan Transmission Reinforcement (OTR) included three open houses
in Oliver, Okanagan Falls, and Penticton in March 2007. A total of 110 participants participated
in those sessions. FortisBC also held three open houses in May 2007 for OTR with 128
participants participating.
Using these prior consultation attendance records as guidelines, FortisBC submits that the AMI
open houses were well attended.
Response:
119.2 Please confirm that FortisBC received approximately 22 feedback forms from this
open house and that approximately one third of those either Disagreed or
Strongly Disagreed that the material presented was useful and helped to
understand AMI.
FortisBC received 22 feedback forms from the open houses held in June 2011. For the
statement on the feedback form, “The open house material presented to me tonight was useful
and helped me understand the AMI better”, 4 participants marked “strongly disagree” and 1
marked “disagree” for a total of 5 or 22.7 per cent.
Response:
119.2.1 Please also confirm that approximately one-third either Disagreed
or Strongly Disagreed that the material presented was a balanced
perspective on the AMI.
FortisBC received 22 feedback forms from the open houses held in June 2011. For the
statement on the feedback form, “The open house material presented to me tonight was a