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Electric vehicles (EVs) in British Columbia (BC) are becoming increasingly popular as more people recognize the environmental and economic benefits they offer. The provincial government, along with various organizations, has been implementing initiatives to encourage the adoption of EVs.
BC has an extensive network of charging stations, making it convenient for EV owners to charge their vehicles while on the go. There are different types of charging stations, including Level 1, Level 2, and DC Fast Chargers, catering to the varying charging needs of EV drivers.
One of BC’s notable incentives for EV owners is the Clean Energy Vehicle (CEV) Program. This program provides rebates for the purchase or lease of eligible new electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. The amount of the rebate depends on the type of vehicle and its battery capacity.
In addition to the CEV Program, BC offers other incentives, such as reduced toll rates for EVs crossing certain bridges and priority access to high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. These benefits make owning an EV in BC more affordable and convenient.
Furthermore, the provincial government has set ambitious goals to transition to a cleaner transportation system. BC aims to have all new light-duty vehicles sold be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2040. This commitment demonstrates BC’s dedication to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting sustainable transportation.
Overall, the future looks promising for electric vehicles in BC. With a supportive government, a robust charging infrastructure, and enticing incentives, more residents are expected to make the switch to electric vehicles, contributing to a greener and more sustainable future for the province.
BC hydro has an alliance of contractors for energy projects .They are promising a simplification of upgrades.
Planning any construction or infrastructure upgrade project can be a daunting task. But when you’re implementing new and unfamiliar systems or technologies on an incentive-driven project, it can get especially challenging. So who can you trust to do the work not just properly – but to a standard that satisfies all the building and incentive requirements? Well, if it’s a project to increase your organization’s energy efficiency, then the BC Hydro Alliance of Energy Professionals is here to help.
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Hydro has done similar things before where they endorsed contractors for insulation and power smart products. They have a good record for that sort of thing.
Use the force…
The utility is using the catch phrase Use the force to refer to the energy professional they are endorsing.
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BC hydro is a crown corporation that operates on a not for profit basis. It is one of the basic entities of a mixed economy and is mandated to supply consumers power at the best price possible. As a not for profit they are not allowed to retain earnings from year to year and must return those values to lower hydro costs.
Over time BC Hydro has been subject to water licence fee increases by the province. its something to be watched for. With holding taxes from many employees and consumption taxes contribute greatly to the coffers of government.
We lost another hydro pole on Merritt avenue recently> On September 30th around 9:30 a fire on the top of a pole near the corner of Garcia and Merritt Avenue was called in by a concerned neighbour. The fire had developed of the top insulator of the same pole in the picture above. However the model plane from the past probably had nothing to do with it.
The hydro crew replace the pole in the pouring rain and had power back on at 3AM. This is one of 5 incidences in the past few years in this area.
John Paul a retired lineman said that if there is dust in the air with rain it can increase the connectivity of the lines to the ground and can sometimes heat to a fire.
At this writing there are 22 outages around the province, outage report .
Outages are common and are responded to in a professional way:
How power is restored
We repair damage to power plants and high-voltage lines and substations.
Next, we restore power to critical services, like hospitals, fire and water systems.
We make repairs that will return service to large neighbourhoods, then smaller neighbourhoods and individual customers.
We can all take steps to prepare for an outage when we know it’s going to happen, but most often, power outages are caused by factors beyond our control – wind, lightning, motor vehicle accidents, animals, etc. – and can happen at any moment. It’s important to ensure you are prepared for an outage year-round. Source BC Hydro
Hydro showing their online consumption tracking. File photo KDG
Hydro people reading for a line burial on Voght File photo KDG
Leaf has direct connection to 500 volt quick charger in Merritt. Photo KDG
Hydro worker on atruck
Enhancing the image of the city photo KDG
Pole installation and work on Voght street Merritt. File photo KDG Photo KDG
A transformer is replaced on Quilchena Saturday morning BC Hydro
Auger on Voght Photo KDG
A Hydro worker turns on power again on Voght street. File photo KDG
New nest on live hydro pole no good for authorities!
hydro replaceing aging and not so aging poles File photo KDG
Voght street Office of a local mine benifiting from new Hydro infrastructure. File Photo KDG
The old substation off Voght is demonstrably going away with equipment on site removing the obsolete decades old transformers and structures. The new one was opened last fall and can be remotely operated from the Fraser Valley with a dish aimed at the towers on Iron Mountain.
The project occurred in the same time frame as the third 500 KV line to the Lower Mainland from the Revel stoke dam area.
The Merritt substation project includes an upgrade of a 61 KV line to the highland Valley and its biggest consumer the giant Teck, Highland Valley copper mine. The upgrade is to a 138 KV line coming from the Merritt Green Energy Project a 40 KV wood over steam electric generator that will burn green wood waste from three local mills. Sources say that the contractor is hoping to turn the keys over to the operator next year possibly March. The Merritt Green Energy Project is licensed by BC Hydro and uses public transmission lines.
The project created a lot of jobs including many members of the local First nations bands. It also generated ongoing relationships with band governments.
The lines for the green energy project are a this moment in progress to the Green Energy project including a crossing by the Osprey nest on Highway 8 coming into Merritt from the west. The ospreys returned to a cleaned off nesting platform this spring but rebuilt it in the shadow of ropes and new poles going up around them.
On this Day: May 24th 1626
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan for tools Wampum and other wares.
A happy job stewart talks to us at the start of the 3rd 500 KV line near Merritt. Photo KDG
You may be miffed that the BC government takes a dividend from hydro when its supposed to be a non profit and delivering power at a rate that reflects your equal standing as a citizen in British Columbia now that dividend may be more attractive when a low snow pack creates less generating capsity then in other year. Putting pressure on that dividend against a reasonable rate. Is it a tax? It is against the mixed economy concept that is supposed to undergird our free system of profit driven business. Here’s what hydro is saying about the snow pack:
Lower-level snowpack is way below normal in many areas across province
No snow on the North Shore mountains. Mount Washington closed to skiing for the season. A record high temperature of 14°C at Vancouver airport a month after Christmas. What’s going on here? And what does it mean to 2015 water levels in B.C., including BC Hydro’s reservoirs? To answer those questions, and to take a deeper dive into the effects of climate change, we sat down with BC Hydro meteorologist Tim Ashman, author of a popular in-house weather blog that goes out to more than 1,000 BC Hydro employees. A member of BC Hydro’s hydrology and technical services team, Ashman agrees that this has been a weird winter in B.C. “It’s been unusual in B.C. and in much of Western North America,” he says. “It’s been warm quite consistently, pretty much all winter, with only a couple exceptions.” What makes the winter of 2014-2015 so unusual is just how warm and wet it has been compared to other so-called El Nino years. We had one in 2009-2010 during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, but that winter was largely dry. Not this time around, because this El Nino year is different. “All of our storm cycles have been warm,” he says. “And that’s had a significant effect on our snowpacks. We’ve had to deal with water runoff instead of storage into the snowpack. At elevations where we’re generally storing snow at this time of year, we’ve seen runoff.” That runoff was significant enough that BC Hydro was forced to spill water at several dams, notably in the Campbell River system. Meanwhile, a rainy October in the north recharged ground water and increased streamflows into BC Hydro’s largest reservoir, Williston, in what amounted to an unusual, but welcome, pre-winter influx of water heading into the peak season for electricity demand.
Maybe rain will come maybe taxs will go up. What ever comes we still have a lot of good people and an enduring community to increase our quality of life come what may. You may take this serous enough to do that solar project you have put off. On this day: March 5th 1975 The first meeting of the home brew computer club.
There was a pile of old power poles in an empty lot off Voght street, now removed by an apparent salvage contractor.The pile had old cedar poles some with a pieces of galvanized channel iron still attached from a stabilizing project more then two decades ago. some not, also in the pile were some recent pine poles that had been preserved with copper and arsenic solution and replaced in the last few years.
A source with in Hydro says that some pine poles are rotting and there is a swing back to cedar ones. He also said that concrete poles like the ones on the Valley View hyway leaving Kamloops going to Vernon are a problem because of electrifying and disintegration because of it. The source says that the power must be off to work on the poles because of the electrifying of the poles.
Editors note: the chemistry of some ground makes copper pipes carode and some does not.
Today in history: May 2,1946
The “Battle of Alcatraz” kills two guards and 3 inmates.
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