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.
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Title and Description |
Last Updated |
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Section 1 Customer Registration Procedures
- Overview
- Procedure for All Customers
- Additional Procedure for Short-Term Service
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2009 October 21 |
| (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
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2009 October 21 |
| (PDF, 88KB) |
Section 3 Pricing for Short Term PTP Transmission
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2010 January 14 |
| (PDF, 30KB) |
Section 4 Posting Service Offers to OASIS
- Price Posting Times
- ATC Posting Times
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2008 August 6 |
| (PDF, 110KB) |
Section 5 Transmission Reservation Procedures
- Submitting a Transmission Request on OASIS
- Service Definitions
- Scheduling Timelines
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2008 August 6 |
| (PDF, 94KB) |
Section 6 OASIS Processing Procedures
- OASIS Status Definitions
- General Policies
- Request Confirmation: Rules and Timelines
- Displacements
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2006 November 6 |
| (PDF, 41KB) |
Section 7 Changing a Transmission Reservation
- Changing Firm to Secondary and Back
- Changing Firm to Firm (New POR/POD)
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2008 August 6 |
| (PDF, 32KB) |
Section 8 Reassignment of Transmission Rights |
2006 March 1 |
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Section 9
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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
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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
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2009 October 6 |
| (PDF, 49KB) |
Section 12 Curtailment, Interruption and Reinstatement
- Curtailments
- Economic Interruption
- Reinstatement of a Transmission Service
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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
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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
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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 |
2009 October 21 |
| (PDF, 56KB) |
Section 17 Network Economy Service
- Economic Test
- Utilization Test
- Posting Results
- Transmission Processing and Curtailments
- Reporting
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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
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2007 June 5 |
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(PDF, 50KB)
(PDF, 68KB) |
Key Contacts
Glossary of Acronyms and Definitions |
2009 February 11
2006 September 28
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