333 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5R3
Area served
British Columbia
Key people
Chris O'Riley, President & CEO
Products
Electricity generation, transmission and distribution
Revenue
CA$7.591 billion(2022)[1]
Net income
CA$668 million(2022)[1]
Total assets
CA$42.734 billion(2022)[1]
Owner
Government of British Columbia
Number of employees
6128 (2011)[2]
Website
www.bchydro.com
The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, operating as BC Hydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia. It is the main electricity distributor, serving more than 4 million customers in most areas,[3] with the exception of the City of New Westminster, where the city runs its own electrical department[4] and portions of the West Kootenay, Okanagan, the Boundary Country and Similkameen regions, where FortisBC, a subsidiary of Fortis Inc. directly provides electric service to 213,000 customers and supplies municipally owned utilities in the same area.[5] As a provincial Crown corporation, BC Hydro reports to the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, and is regulated by the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC). Its mandate is to generate, purchase, distribute and sell electricity.
BC Hydro operates 32 hydroelectric facilities and three natural gas-fueled thermal power plants. As of 2014, 95 per cent of the province's electricity was produced by hydroelectric generating stations, which consist mostly of large hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Peace rivers.[6] BC Hydro's various facilities generate between 43,000 and 54,000 gigawatt hours of electricity annually, depending on prevailing water levels. BC Hydro's nameplate capacity is about 11,000 megawatts.[7]
Electricity is delivered through a network of 18,286 kilometers of transmission lines and 55,254 kilometers of distribution lines. For the 2013-2014 fiscal year, the domestic electric sales volume was 53,018 gigawatt hours, revenue was CA$5.392 billion and net income was CA$549 million.[8]
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^BC Hydro (2011). "LA1 Number of Active Employees, by Contract Type". Retrieved 2013-02-18.
^BC Hydro (2019), BC Hydro quick facts(PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-27, retrieved 2022-05-16
^Electrical | City of New Westminster. Newwestcity.ca. Retrieved on 2014-04-12.
^FortisBC, About Fortis BC, retrieved 2011-06-30
^BC Hydro (July 17, 2014). "BC Hydro's System". Archived from the original on 2013-04-19. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
^BC Hydro (July 29, 2009). "Our Facilities". Archived from the original on 2010-07-31. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, operating as BCHydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia. It is the main...
in British Columbia operated by BCHydro Waneta Dam has been wholly owned by BCHydro since July 2018 after Fortis BC finalized an agreement with Teck...
the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved August 23, 2021. "BCHydro quick facts" (PDF). BCHydro. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 27, 2021. Retrieved...
2023. BC Transit is the successor to the British Columbia Electric Railway, which started in 1897 and in 1961 became BCHydro, as the BCHydro and Power...
of renewable energy for British Columbia's main electricity provider, BCHydro. The river’s first dam, the W. A. C. Bennett Dam, was completed in 1968...
and changed BC logging practices. He also served on the board of directors of BCHydro and Power Authority, the Insurance Corporation of BC, the Workers...
(BC Housing) BC Hydro (formed in 1961) — took over the assets of the British Columbia Electric Railway. BC Immigrant Investment Fund BC Infrastructure...
produce. The railway was taken over by Crown corporation BCHydro in 1961, and was known as the BCHydro Railway. In 1988 Freight rights, rolling stock and...
Act exempted the project from further BC Utilities Commission review. Site C was being reconsidered by BCHydro for two years prior as the utility reconsidered...
incorporated into electric utility names such as Toronto Hydro or BCHydro, has led to "hydro" being used in some parts of Canada to refer to electricity...
in Canada. Busey made his first foray into network radio across B.C. with the BCHydro Home Ideas Show, a call-in home renovation program. The Home Ideas...
company BCHydro on 5 July 2010 as part of the province's Clean Energy Act. BCTC was formed to operate the transmission system, while BCHydro remained...
undertook nationalization of various important monopolies, notably BCHydro and BC Ferries. British Columbia is known for having politically active labour...
Originally the parent company for, and later a division of, BC Electric Company (now BCHydro), the BCER assumed control of existing streetcar and interurban...
way for the creation of BCHydro in 1963, completing Bennett's vision of "public power". BCHydro thereafter consisted of BC Electric, the Peace River...
Mainland gas division from BCHydro and changed its name to BC Gas, serving 546,000 customers in 70 communities across BC. 2002: BC Gas became the dominant...
unmanned, operated by remote control from BCHydro's System Control facility atop Burnaby Mountain. In 2015 BCHydro lists capacity of the two powerhouses...
approving an agreement between Alcan and BCHydro (part of the BC Liberals attempt to privatize electricity generation in BC) which was subsequently overturned...
BCHydro grew from the province's need to supply growing energy demands and implementation of the 2002 Energy Strategy, which mandated that BCHydro would...
to create the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, commonly known as BCHydro. During the 60s and 70s, BCHydro built some of the largest hydroelectric...
development in British Columbia. He established the BC Power Commission, a forerunner of BCHydro, to provide power to smaller communities that were not...
system going, adding BC Transit access, Paving the pedestrian walkway that still exists alongside Sunnyside Road and working with BCHydro to turn Buntzen...
Global Information
CA$7.591 billion (2022)[1]
CA$668 million (2022)[1]