Business Practices

The business practices listed below provide policy and procedures for doing business with BCTC and include specific detail and/or clarification on the implementation of the Open Access Transmission Tariff. Please subscribe for the updates and refer to the posted bulletins.

Format	Title and Description	Last Updated
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(PDF,  179KB)	Section 1 Customer Registration Procedures Overview Procedure for All Customers Additional Procedure for Short-Term Service	2008 August 6
(PDF, 94KB)	Section 2 TTC/ATC Definitions Total Transfer Capability (TTC) Methodoloy Available Transmission Capacity (ATC) Calculation ATC for Sale in Real-time (Unused Transmission) Counterflow ATC Real-time Grant Remaining Capacity	2008 August 6
(PDF, 31KB)	Section 3 Pricing Methodologies Hourly Non-Firm Formula Hourly Firm Formula Daily Non-Firm and Firm Formulae Weekly Non-Firm Formula Weekly Firm Formula Monthly Non-Firm and Firm Prices Long-Term Firm Prices Loss Compensation Price	2008 August 6
(PDF, 30KB)	Section 4 Posting Service Offers to OASIS Price Posting Times ATC Posting Times	2008 August 6
(PDF, 110KB)	Section 5 Transmission Reservation Procedures Submitting a Transmission Request on OASIS Service Definitions Scheduling Timelines	2008 August 6
(PDF, 94KB)	Section 6 OASIS Processing Procedures OASIS Status Definitions General Policies Request Confirmation: Rules and Timelines Displacements	2006 November 6
(PDF, 41KB)	Section 7 Changing a Transmission Reservation Changing Firm to Secondary and Back Changing Firm to Firm (New POR/POD)	2008 August 6
(PDF, 32KB)	Section 8 Reassignment of Transmission Rights	2006 March 1
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(PDF, 109KB)	Section 10 Scheduling Energy on Transmission Reservations eTag Terms Designating Transmission eTag Scheduling Timelines Scheduling Interruptible Energy Scheduling Energy Wheelthroughs Correcting eTags Modifying eTags Terminating eTags Canceling eTags	2008 August 6
(PDF, 73KB)	Section 11 Ancillary Services Losses Losses for Wheelthroughs Spinning Reserve and Contingency Reserve Self Supply of Operating Reserve (SSOR) Ancillary Services and Transmission Losses Guide Dynamic Scheduling Spinning Reserve, Dynamic Scheduling Contingency Reserve, and Dynamic Scheduling Regulation Reserve	2006 December 13
(PDF, 49KB)	Section 12 Curtailment, Interruption and Reinstatement Curtailments Economic Interruption Reinstatement of a Transmission Service	2006 March 1
(PDF, 48KB)	Section 13 Backup Procedures for Scheduling System Outages Notification of Outages OASIS Outage eTag System Outage British Columbia Transmission Corporation Scheduling Application Outages	2008 August 6
(PDF, 81KB)	Section 14 Settlements and Billing Daily Settlements Reports Monthly Invoice and Billing Terms Wire Payment Instructions GST and Wholesale Transmission Services Customer Inquiries and Disputes	2008 August 6
(PDF,58KB)	Section 15 Long-Term Firm Point-To-Point ("LTFPTP") Service Requests	2006 November 6
(PDF, 73KB)	Section 16 Rollover Rights for Long-Term Firm Service	2008 March 17
(PDF, 56KB)	Section 17 Network Economy Service Economic Test Utilization Test Posting Results Transmission Processing and Curtailments Reporting	2008 August 6
(PDF, 38KB)	Section 18 Open Season Purpose Process Aggregation and Study of Transmission Requests Expansion of System Capacity Allocation of System Capacity Allocation of Costs	2007 June 5
(PDF, 50KB) (PDF, 68KB)	Key Contacts Glossary of Acronyms and Definitions	2008 August 6 2006 September 28

Supplemental Documents

• British Columbia Transmission Corporation Transmission Service Fax Request Form   updated 2007 October 11 (PDF, 21.4KB)
• British Columbia Transmission Corporation eTag Fax Request Form updated 2004 February 20 (PDF, 32KB)      
• Dynamic Scheduling Transmission Fax Request Form updated 2005 July 29 (PDF, 20KB)