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BC Hydro along North Westside Road
This page started because BC Hydro left Westside Road at
Westshore Estates without power for 3 days.
This page has everything to do with BC Hydro along North
Westside Road including power outages, transmission lines, Wood Lake substation,
Vernon substation, Armstrong substation, the OKIB reserve which is what Jim
Edgson (COW director) called Federal land,
submarine cable across Okanagan Lake, the cost of hydro poles, and who pays for
the poles, etc.
Did you know that Westside Road power from Westshore Estates
to the Kelowna end comes across under Okanagan Lake from Winfield at Lake
Okanagan Resort via a submarine cable. There are now about 4 submarine
cables coming across the Lake now, one being the old one and the others put in
about 2010 before the Vancouver Olympics.
Sometimes Winfield's power is out from Bottom Wood Lake Road
somewhere there all the way to Westshore Estates. Pinecrest Road at
Westshore Estates is the only road besides the OKIB reserve who's power comes
from the Vernon end across the OKIB reserve.
The posts on this page are in
date order.
You can even make a comment to
post here. (Sorry the
comment form does not work right now)
LAST UPDATE
July 16, 2017
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be sure you see any updates.
List
of Power Outages (BC Hydro)
WESTSIDE ROAD POWER OUTAGES
July 15, 2017 outage 7:20am -
12:39am (5 hrs 19 mins)
June 24, 2017 power
outage 5:55am until 7:42am (1 hr 47 mins)
May 27, 2017 power outage
at Valley of the Sun only, because tree fell on the line (Firwood at Alpine)
May
23 - 24th 2017 power was out for about 23 hours due to windstorm
May
4, 2017 Planned power outage for upgrades 6am - 6pm
Missed marking down a power outage here I think
August 21st to 22nd, 2016 from 8pm - 6:50pm (23 hrs)
August 12, 2016 7:25pm until can't remember but it wasn't
long we don't think.
May 4, 2016 power was out from 6:57 p.m. until 10:11 p.m.
November 17 to Nov 18, 2015 power was out from 10:08pm - 4:05am
The power was out summer of 2015 (approx July 20, 2015) due to the Wildfire at
Shelter Cove, but we forgot to mark it down here. The hydro line was burnt
due to the wildfire. The power was out for a week or so. Near the
end of the power outage, BC Hydro set up a portable power generator at Westshore
Estates, and rotated the power off and on so that three different parts of the
area would get power every 18 hours for 6 hours.
June 30, 2015 power was out from 10:56pm until 11:25am
June 29, 2015 power was out from 9:01pm until 11:18pm
August 3, 2014 from 6:46am - approx. 9:10am
July 17, 2014 power went out for about 1 minute at 12:24am
June 18, 2014 9:58am - 5:37pm
(7 hours 39 minutes) -
Pole fell over
June 20, 2013 2:29am - 6:41pm
(16 hours 12 minutes) -
Bird contacting wires
June 14, 2013 1am - 3:00am
BC Hydro's website said that on June 14 power was out from
12:55am - 4:10 am (so power was out for
3 hours 15 minutes)
June 11, 2013 5:30pm - 3:30am at Valley of the Sun and at Killiney Beach their power didn't come back
on until 6:30am -
(10 hours and 13 hours) - underground cable broke (11
hours 20 minutes BC Hydro's website said)
August 6th and 7th, 2011 2:00am - 6:30am and longer
(at least 4 1/2 hours)
Saturday - Sunday, Feb 12-13, 2011 night the power went out
sometime about 10:30pm or so due to a tree blown over onto the line, not
positive the exact time because we were not home, but from about midnight until
at least 4:30am we know the power was not on. The power was back on at
Valley of the Sun at 11am, but not sure what time it came on at. Westshore
didn't get power till 2:30pm Sunday from about 11pm Saturday
(at least 6 hours
at Valley of the Sun and 15 hours at Westshore)
July 15, 2017 outage 7:20am - 12:39am
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June 24, 2017 power
outage 5:55am until 7:42am
In the dark
Vernon Morning Star - Jun 7th,
2017 - Letters / Opinion
After the
May 23/24 electrical outage on Westside Road, I
was asked by some residents why it took so long to
restore power?
I responded that it could be because of higher
priorities or difficult terrain. So I compiled
outage information in chronological order from the
B.C. Hydro website for the outages in our general
area.
The Westside Road outage (under the name Lake
Country) was the third outage reported after 5 p.m.
and had the second highest number of customers
affected, but took the longest time to restore.
I have to commend the crews that tackled this high
number of outages (37), but I also have to question
how the priorities are established. There may be
extenuating circumstances, but we are left to guess
what those might be as there is little or no
information supplied in that regard.
On the surface, it simply appears that we got the
short end of the stick and attempts to contact B.C.
Hydro have failed.
John Coutts
North Westside
Source: http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/opinion/in-the-dark/ |
May 27, 2017 North
Westside Fire Rescue arrived at Valley of the Sun about 10:15pmish
Apparently a tree fell across the
wire on Firwood Road near Alpine Road at Valley of the Sun. North Westside Fire Rescue blocked
the road both sides of the tree and as North Westside Fire Rescue was
attending, they watched the transformer blow up and a tree started on
fire a bit. BC Hydro showed up and turned the power off to most of
Valley of the Sun and then fixed the line. The power was back on
approx. 1:40am
Thank you Graham from Killiney
Beach, for attending, and telling us what was wrong, so we could report,
unlike Dalton the Dolt whom was being a real jerk to us trying to get a
report from the rollover at Ewings Landing.
After being up all night
with the commotion in the subdivision, it sure was awful nice
that just before 9am Roy and Jean Lysholt let their dog out to
bark its head off to wake me up!!!
Lysholt's have no respect
for people!!! Really don't know how Lysholts could sleep
through all that noise of sirens and big hydro trucks driving in
and out of Valley of the Sun.
Don't forget planned
power outage May 4, 2017 from 6am until 6pm
BC Hydro offers help to Westside residents with
higher than normal bills
by Alistair Waters - Kelowna
Capital News - Jan 10, 2017
Both BC Hydro and Fortis have both reported record
power usage this wee— Image Credit: Pixabay
BC Hydro has announced a special plan to let
Westside residential customers spread out the big
power bills they racked due to the recent
colder-than-usual weather over a six-months period.
The 2016/2017 Winter Payment Plan option is BC
Hydro's way of helping customers deal with higher
than normal electricity bills they are likely to see
between now and the end of March, says the company.
“Given the unusually cold weather, we anticipate
that many of our customers will receive higher than
normal bills,” said Jessica McDonald, president and
CEO of BC Hydro.
“We recognize that some customers may need the
option to manage the costs over a longer period of
time. This program allows them to do that.”
The extra time to pay will only affect residents
living in Westside and on the west side of Okanagan
Lake, as residential electricity in Kelonwa and on
the east side of the lake is provided by FortisBC.
With the colder than average temperatures this
season, BC Hydro is seeing electricity consumption
reach record levels.
On Jan. 3, it reported that a 10-year record was
broken for peak electricity demand.
The special payment plan provides residential
customers with the option to spread out payments of
winter bills over a six-month period. The winter
billing period runs from Dec. 1, 2016 to Mar. 31,
2017.
Customers who want to participate in the 2016/2017
Winter Payment Plan can call BC Hydro’s customer
service team at 1-800-BCHYDRO (1-800 224 9376) for
more details and to enrol
Source: http://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/410253135.html |
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Planned Hydro Outage
Affects North Westside Water Users
Customers of three Regional District of Central
Okanagan water systems may want to prepare for a
planned electricity outage next week.
BC Hydro says the outage will last from 6:00 am to
approximately 6:00 pm on Wednesday, December 7th
affecting more than 1,350 customers along Westside
Road. The outage, subject to cancellation due to
weather or other circumstances, is needed to make
improvements to the distribution system.
The outage will impact operation of the Regional
District’s Killiney Beach, Westshore Estates and
Upper Fintry-Shalal Road-Valley of the Sun water
systems.
Communications Officer Bruce Smith says, “With the
planned, extended outage, we encourage our more than
600 customers on these systems, to conserve water:
only using water when needed. If possible, they
should avoid doing laundry and running dishwashers
during the outage, as these appliances use large
amounts of water.” He adds, “Given the advance
notice, customers should stockpile some additional
water for household use during the outage by filling
their bathtub or adding additional water for
drinking.”
Another reason for residents to conserve water
during this period is that should any of the three
systems run out of water, the Regional District will
have to put out a Precautionary Water Quality
Advisory until staff can flush the system and
conduct bacterial and chlorine residual testing,
which could take several days. Smith says, “We hope
to avoid this by encouraging our customers to use
water sparingly. We’ll be monitoring our systems
throughout the day and will let residents know if
any advisory is required.”
Interior Health advises that the draining of a
reservoir can result in sediments being drawn into
the distribution system and if any microorganisms
have settled out into the sediments, they can be
released at that time. There have been a number of
cases where water systems have had positive lab
reports when their reservoir was unintentionally
drained due to a power outage, main break, or pump
failure.
It says the loss of pressure can result in
contaminant intrusion into the water distribution
lines through cracks and leaks. This could put any
individuals that consume the water at increased risk
of gastrointestinal illness, particularly if the
lines are close to septic discharges. This risk has
been discussed in the Environmental Protection
Association paper on the Potential for Health Risks
from Intrusion of Contaminants into the Distribution
System from Pressure Transients.
Smith says, “Depending on the location of a customer
on a system, some receive water directly from the
pressurized pipe on their street, while others get
their water from the reservoir. When power is off
for an extended period, system pumps can’t operate
and users connected directly to pressurized pipes
lose water shortly after the electrical outage,
depending on where they are located within the
system. Those connected directly to a reservoir will
continue to get water until the reservoir supply is
depleted.”
“Once electricity is restored and all pumps are
working again,” Smith says “users directly connected
to the pressure pipes will receive water fairly
quickly once the system’s pressure returns. Those
fed from reservoirs will take longer to get water
service as it takes time to refill and replenish the
reservoirs. If your water is cloudy please run the
cold water tap until it clears.”
Affected customers can find information from BC
Hydro on ‘Prepare Your Home for An Outage’ and ‘What
to Do During an Outage, from Safety to Kids to
Food’. Visit bchydro.com/outages or bchydro.com/mobile
for the most up-to-date information on the outage
and the estimated time for electricity restoration.
The Regional District operates and maintains water
systems serving just over 900 properties in the
following areas: Falcon Ridge, Killiney Beach,
Sunset Ranch, Star Place/Dietrich, Westshore and
Upper Fintry - Shalal Road - Valley of the Sun.
For information visit regionaldistrict.com/water or
contact RDCO Environmental Services at engineer "at"
cord.bc.ca or 250-469-6241. To subscribe online for
Regional District water quality advisories or alerts
by email visit regionaldistrict.com/water.
(November 30, 2016)
Source RDCO's Whats New:
http://www.regionaldistrict.com/whats-new.aspx |
Guess BC Hydro hasn't
been reading our Smart Meter and now we have a credit on our bill
How great is that, that we have
prepaid BC Hydro since Feb 2016 - Oct 2016 our bill says. There is
a whole list of previous bill dates being credited on this one bill date
of Oct 18, 2016. We called Hydro and they tell us they have only
been estimating our bill all this time. We hung up on BC Hydro
after telling them how pissed off we were.
BC Hydro needs to make the
small print saying "your bill shows an estimate" a little larger.
We were broke all summer because we were pre-paying our one hydro bill
ahead of time, and starved while we paid it. Fruckers!!!
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ALMOST 23 HOURS WITHOUT
POWER AUG 21st to 22nd, 2016 DUE TO TREES DOWN ACROSS WIRES AND BEAR CREEK FOREST FIRE
Power outage first due to down
trees on BC Hydro's power lines we think, and then a forest fire started
at Bear Creek about 10pm we read on Castanet. Power went out
approx. 8pm August 21, 2016 and didn't come back on until 6:50pm August
22, 2016 due to the fire mostly we think. The Fire Dept had to
give BC Hydro the go ahead to re-energize the lines from what we
understand from reading BC Hydro's website.
There were flaggers at LaCasa
telling people that Westside Road is only open until you get to Pine
Point and then its closed from there to Bear Creek and you couldn't get
to Kelowna. You could get to just past Lake Okanagan Resort.
We were told by the flag person that she was getting her info from
Castanet.net about the fire. There was a sign that said Accident
Scene at LaCasa for the flaggers, but there wasn't an accident, it was
to do with the road being closed. Maybe they didn't have the
correct sign, but the Accident Scene sign did what they wanted it to do
to slow traffic at LaCasa for the flaggers as shown in the photo below.
Telus also had a generator going
at Valley of the Sun behind that metal box across from the mailboxes.
We wonder what that box is for, is that for Telus's wireless stick or is
it for Telus's ADSL high speed internet, or is it for the phone?
The generator had a sticker on it
that said Telus, and that is how we figure it must be a Telus box.
August 21st to 22nd, 2016
Power Outage
August 21st and August
22nd Power Outages
August 12, 2016 Power
Outage 7:25pm - ??
Hydro proposal unpopular
by Roger Knox - Vernon Morning
Star - Jun 29, 2016
B.C. Hydro’s plan to potentially install a new
secondary transmission line in the North Okanagan to
strengthen the transmission network of West Kelowna
and Peachland has met with static from Spallumcheen
council.
Hydro reps gave a presentation on the West Kelowna
transmission project, saying there are three
alternatives for the project, and alternative one
includes a North Okanagan connection.
A new transmission line would be built on the west
side of Okanagan Lake, connecting the Westbank
substation to the existing transition line between
the Vernon and Valleyview (Kamloops) substations.
Options would then include connecting the existing
line somewhere between Falkland and Vernon, or
bringing the new line into the Vernon substation.
“As alternate one goes through an area that already
has commercial, industrial and some residential
development, along with our future development that
we have planned, I move that we not support it,”
said Coun. Christine Fraser.
“This would negatively impact existing and future
development.”
Fraser’s motion was unanimously supported although
Coun. Andrew Casson was absent.
Source: http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/384691451.html |
May 4, 2016 power was out from
6:57 p.m. until 10:11 p.m.
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Power proposal goes before the public
by Staff Writer - Vernon Morning
Star - Nov 22, 2015
Vernon area residents have an opportunity to spark
discussions and input into a new power line.
B.C. Hydro will build a secondary transmission line
to deliver power to West Kelowna and Peachland.
One of the options is to construct a new line north
on the west side of Okanagan Lake that connects
Westbank substation to the existing transmission
line serving Vernon substation.
The public is invited to provide feedback on the
project at an open house Monday at the Best Western
Vernon Lodge from 5 to 8 p.m.
“The existing line into the area has provided
reliable power to the communities for decades,”
states B.C. Hydro’s project report.
“The new line will strengthen and reinforce the
existing transmission network.”
The Vernon route is one of three options being
considered.
An earlier open house in June showed support for the
Vernon option.
“Alternative one was
perceived as more desirable over other alternatives,
as it would create a diversity of transmission
sources and wouldn’t be threatened by the same
forest fires as the existing line,” reads the
consultation summary.
“In the event this alternative is selected, there
were requests that B.C. Hydro consider adding a
substation to serve the Westside Road area.”
Alternative two is to construct the line from Nicola
substation to Westbank substation using a different
route than the existing transmission line.
The third alternative, which is the shortest route,
is to construct a new submarine transmission cable
across Okanagan Lake, connecting the Westbank
substation to the Fortis B.C. system.
“A number of participants expressed concern that
this alternative could be the most expensive, and
would impact rates,” reads the summary.
“One participant also expressed concern that fish
habitat may be impacted. A number of participants
viewed this alternative as the most desirable, as it
will not be threatened by forest fires.”
Source: http://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/352352791.html |
New BC Hydro
Transmission Line
BC Hydro is planning on
installing a secondary transmission line to serve West Kelowna in case
their transmission line fails. Will this second transmission line
be coming down Westside Road getting in the way of our great view of the
lake? You may want to attend the meetings to find out and provide
input. It looks like there are 3 options in the map below.
One of the options looks like the hydro transmission line would be
coming down Westside Road from Vernon.
Looks like BC Hydro is
having meetings in regards to West Kelowna's new proposed
transmission line.
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Older map and meeting
dates below
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November 17 to Nov 18,
2015 power was out from 10:08pm - 4:05am due to a strong
windstorm
The power was out summer of 2015 (for
a week or so before July 20, 2015) due to the Wildfire at
Shelter Cove, but we forgot to mark it down here. The hydro line was burnt
due to the wildfire. The power was out for a week or so. Near the
end of the power outage, BC Hydro set up a portable power generator at Westshore
Estates, and rotated the power off and on so that three
different parts of the area would have power every 18 hours for 6 hours.
July 20, 2015
July 23, 2015
Evacuation alert rescinded
Castanet.net - by Carmen Weld | Story:
144844 - Jul 26, 2015
Photo: Contributed
After a successful weekend of
containing the Shelter Cove fire, the evacuation alert
for 70 properties has now been rescinded.
This includes all properties along Westside Road from
Denison Road, north to La Casa.
BC Wildfire Service firefighters will continue to
monitor and work on the fire.
Favourable weather conditions have continued to help
firefighters on the ground as the 560-hectare Shelter
Cove fire is now 75 per cent contained.
Fire Information Officer Jordan Turner says BC Wildfire
Service crews will continue mopping up hot spots along
the fire's perimeter.
“A 21-person sustained action crew from Ontario has also
been assigned to this incident,” says Turner. “Their
assistance was made possible through the Canadian
Interagency Forest Fire Centre, which co-ordinates the
mutual sharing of firefighting resources between B.C.
and other Canadian jurisdictions.”
For their
safety, members of the public are asked to stay out of
the fire-affected area as an area restriction has been
issued.
Please obey all warning and hazards signs and watch for
any firefighters and fire suppression vehicles that are
still working in this area.
For a map of the restricted area, please see below.
The BC Wildfire Service is engaging contract crews,
industry partners and local fire departments in wildfire
suppression and response – given the many high priority
wildfires province-wide, resources are ultimately
limited.
The Kamloops Fire Centre is always urging caution in the
backcountry and asking everyone in the province to
refrain from activities that may cause a wildfire.
Human-caused wildfires are preventable and unnecessarily
divert firefighting resources from naturally occurring
fires.
As always, Central Okanagan residents are encouraged to
prepare to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours.
Please 'Know the Risks', 'Make a Plan' and 'Get a Kit'.
Find out how to prepare your family by visiting the
Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre website and
click on the 'Be Prepared' link.
To report a wildfire or open burning violation, call 1
800 663-5555 toll-free or *5555 on a cell phone.
Source: castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/144844/Evacuation-alert-rescinded |
So in talking to North Westside Road Director Wayne Carson
on July 26, 2015, he stated
he doesn't think any of the water systems have a back up generator that doesn't
automatically kick in except Valley of the Sun because its a new system.
The Regional District did bring in back up generators for the Killiney Beach and
Westshore Estates water systems and they had water after approx. 24 hours.
Lower Fintry is a private system, and we read that because their water system is
so old, it is not possible to put a back up generator on their water system,
even if they did have a generator. We are not sure if their water is back
running yet or not. The Estamont water system is also private and they did
loose their water for a time, but not for more than 24 hours or so.
Shelter Cove 75% contained
Castanet.net - by Carmen Weld | Story:
144837 - Jul 26, 2015
Favourable weather conditions have continued to help
firefighters on the ground as the 560-hectare Shelter
Cove fire is now 75 per cent contained.
Yesterday crews were optimistic weather conditions and
boots on the ground would increase their containment
numbers and they were right.
The fire is still burning at 560 hectares, but BC
Wildfire is now calling it 75 per cent contained and
crews will continue to work to increase that containment
number today.
There are 96 firefighters on the ground Sunday, along
with four helicopters and five pieces of heavy
machinery.
Westside Road has reopened as of Friday, and power has
been restored to residents north of the fire.
While there has been intermittent rain in Kelowna today
already, crews are hoping for further showers.
There is a 60 per cent chance of showers in Kelowna this
afternoon, with risk of a thunderstorm and a high of 21
degrees.
Source: castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/144837/Shelter-Cove-75-contained |
Hahaha GOOD ONE!! ... This below is from a satire
website, so don't think this is true.
Exhausted
forest firefighters refuse to sing O Canada for Harper
BY THE LAPINE · JULY 26, 2015
CORRECTED VERSION - CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK - B.C. Premier
Christy Clark and Prime Minister Stephen Harper talk
with firefighters near the scene of a wild fire in West
Kelowna, B.C. Thursday, July 23, 2015. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/Jonathan HaywardHarper tries to conduct firefighters but they refuse to
sing O Canada for him.
KELOWNA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is getting
slammed on social media for having a group of front-line
firefighters pulled out of the smoky hills near this
bustling B.C. city so they could pose with him for a
patriotic, pre-election picture.
But things didn’t go quite as planned for Harper’s
advance team of organizers.
The selected firefighters were so tired and annoyed that
they just silently watched Harper as he waved his arms
around like a conductor and tried to get them to sing
along with him in a rousing chorus of O Canada.
None of the group sang or even hummed along.
And none of them accepted the “Canada’s Better With
Harper” t-shirts that the PM’s bodyguards were handing
out.
“Shit man, we’d all been out there for 12 hours or so
and suddenly we’re hauled out, lined up in a parking
lot, left standing for an hour, and then expected to
sing O Canada so Harper can get a picture?” front-line
firefighter Ted McKinley told local radio station AM
1150.
“That’s complete bullshit. Harper just wanted a picture
as quickly as he could get one…he still smelled like
garlic from whatever he had for lunch,” said the
37-year-old father of two.
With forest fires just miles away and nearly 200 fires
raging across the province, Harper addressed the
firefighters briefly saying that “once the dust settles”
he would consider assigning a team to see if anything
can be done better next time.
Immediately following receiving the silent treatment
from the firefighters, Harper over-compensated for the
snub by waving wildly for the cameras and singing ‘The
Maple Leaf Forever’ as he boarded a helicopter with
Premier Clark to return to Kelowna for a scheduled
beach-side fundraiser event.
Local news site infonews.com said the blatant
politicking using exhausted firefighters was rude,
dangerous, egotistical, and pig-headed. The site refused
to use Harper’s name in their coverage, referring to him
instead as “a man in a blue suit”.
Sue Dunum
Reportering for The Lapine
Source: thelapine.ca/exhausted-forest-firefighters-refuse-to-sing-o-canada-for-harper/ |
UPDATED: 4:32 P.M. July 25, 2015
The power has finally been restored at La Casa Resort,
but it took far too long according to residents.
BC Hydro said yesterday the power would be restored by 1
p.m. Friday, but it ended up taking until 4 p.m.
Saturday. Mora Scott, spokesperson for BC Hydro said
they tried to put La Casa on the generator power
yesterday, but the load was too heavy to support.
They were able to make repairs to the original system
this afternoon and the resort is now back on the grid
power.
One full-time resident of the area, Jay Bangay, ended up
taking his wife and two dogs to Kelowna, and slept in
his pickup truck for four nights.
"We just lost every bit of food we had in the fridges
and the freezer," said Bangay. "Since you're not on any
evacuation, you can't get assistance from anybody.
"There's people who live out here who are losing
everything and spending everything they have to
survive."
A medical emergency last night at 3:30 a.m. in the
resort was exacerbated by the lack of power as well.
A
man experienced kidney failure in one of the residences,
and the rescue crews had to assist without lights.
"They had to show up in the dark, there was no lights,"
said Keith Fisher, strata operations manager for La Casa
Resort. "They weren't very happy."
Source: castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/144772/Lights-back-on-at-La-Casa
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ORIGINAL: 1:44 P.M.
Residents at La Casa Resort on Westside Road have gone
almost four full days without power – and they are not
happy about it.
BC Hydro disconnected electricity to approximately 1,400
residents Monday night once the Shelter Cove wildfire
took off, to protect fire crews.
On Thursday, BC Hydro began rotating power to 900
residents along Westside Road, 300 at a time for
six-hour periods. But, La Casa was not included in the
rotations.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” said Robin Shaw, a
resident of La Casa. “BC Hydro has to be accountable for
the 300 and some residents who have to lose all their
meats and food, as well as rental money for people.”
Mora Scott, spokesperson for BC Hydro, said the utility
company couldn’t include La Casa in the rotating power
service because the demand there is too high.
“The system was reconfigured to provide power to the
largest number of customers possible and, unfortunately,
the load in the La Casa subdivision was too high for the
low-capacity line that serves that area. So, we weren’t
able to include them in that rotation,” Scott said.
“There’s a heavier load in that area … we did try to
pick up that load at one point, and unfortunately it was
too much for that line.”
BC Hydro said in a statement Thursday that La Casa
Resort would be provided power from diesel generators
starting this morning. Shaw said that has yet to happen.
“When I phoned an hour ago (11 a.m.), they said they had
no idea when it would be restored.”
Scott said at 1:15 p.m. La Casa would be receiving power
from diesel generators “probably in the next few
minutes.”
As of 1:45 p.m., that power had yet to be restored.
Shaw said she is speaking on behalf of all 300 residents
of the neighbourhood when she says they are frustrated
by La Casa being singled out.
“What we have a problem with is that every other
residence on Westside Road here has had power but us –
it’s just not fair.”
She said people in her neighbourhood have been forced to
throw out thousands of dollars worth of meats and other
perishable foods. Shaw is also concerned for those who
aren’t living in their homes at the moment.
“There’s several people who aren’t here and can’t get up
here. Their fridges are just going to be filled with
rotten meat. God knows if it’s leaked onto their
floors.”
Shaw said she’s sure BC Hydro can do better.
“It always comes off that they’re doing the best they
can. Well, they’re not. It’s just not acceptable in this
day and age.” ==================
One commenter said this:
People have nasty comments about
residents at the bottom of this article on Castanet.net,
when BC Hydro should have a back up plan. Not every
resident can afford to rent or buy a generator.
Residents rely on BC Hydro to supply power. BC Hydro
should have had their back up plan organized long before
this fire. This ain't the first fire, and we should
expect more. It would have been nice if CORD Emergency
and BC Hydro would coordinate themselves and report on
one website (CORD Emergency) for the people who don't
have power and for the people who could not check
Global's website and were not able to watch the news and
keep updated about the fire. Pretty poor communication
skills if you ask us. And yes I didn't know if I was
coming or going with the hydro when it was rotating. The
least Hydro could have done was give people power enough
to keep their fridges cold. A 12 hour wait for hydro
only to get hydro for 6 hours was too long of a wait. It
takes less than 12 hours for a fridge to warm up. I
think they should have rotated the power more often to
keep fridges cold. I am upset with BC Hydro and the way
things are done. We get power outages all the time, and
the power is out for 10 hours at a time usually. BC
Hydro needs a back up plan!!!! Why did it take BC Hydro
5 full days to get a generator running? Until the people
spouting off have no power for 5 days, they should keep
their mouth shut because they are not helping. Why
should anyone be without power for 5 days when BC Hydro
has generators? It is obvious to us that BC Hydro
needs to do a better job!!! What if this same
scenario happened when it was -20 degrees? Could
imagine the insurance claims then with homes water pipes
broken and their home flooded with ice!!!
=================
Another commenter said this:
I get why Robin is ticked, but
as a resident dealing with the power for 6 hrs in an 18
hour period, I can tell you this situation isn't any
better.
The power is off when I need it and on when I don't. I
work 8hrs a day in Kelowna, then drive and hour and a
half home because of the road closure, I'd like to make
dinner and my lunch for the next day when I get home,
but can't. Interior Health says the food in the fridge
is no good after 4 hrs anyways, at least the meat and
milk products.
So you may be ticked off Robin, but those of us on
rotational power aren't any happier.
For any foods you have lost call BC Hydro and ask them
how to go about making a claim.
==================
Another commenter said this:
Has anyone even thought if this
happened in -20 degree weather? Everyone's insurance
rates would increase because of all the water damage
claims from homes freezing up and water pipes bursting
and flooded then freezing and turning into ice filled
homes. Its costly for everyone, that Hydro does not have
a backup plan. A few years back a new submarine cable
was installed under Okanagan Lake in case the existing
cable was damaged. This was the only power North
Westside Road received back then from BC Hydro. BC Hydro
told us a few years back when it was -20 and we didn't
have power for a few days, that we wouldn't have hydro
for years if that submarine cable ever broke and that it
was a good thing they planned to put another submarine
cable in. West Kelowna is asking for a secondary back up
service, so why shouldn't North Westside Road also have
a backup power system plan in place for future fires and
incidents that may affect the power for days? Can you
imagine what a few hundred generators would sound like
for how long if nobody had power during the North
Westside Road fire? I can tell you that at the one
subdivision, there was maybe a hand full of generators
running out of about 50 homes. We also need the
community water systems to have power so there is water
for firefighter's to use to fight a fire close to homes.
Not all of RDCO's water systems have a back up
generator. ====================
Most of the comments we read
were against the people without power bitching about the
power situation?? Maybe if the commenter's didn't
have power for 5 days, they may change their tune.
We talked to our North Westside
Road Director who told us that he thinks only Valley of
the Sun has a generator system and that generators were
hooked up to Killiney Beach and Westshore water systems
within a day of the power going out. |
UPDATED: 11:40 A.M. July 25, 2015
As of 11:45 a.m. this morning, La Casa Resort residents
are still without power, despite being told they would
have their power restored by 1 p.m. yesterday.
"All of us are just so frustrated," said Sharon Olson, a
La Casa resident. "I've called them (BC Hydro) and I'm
just getting the run around, saying 'we don't know
why.'"
Residents at La Casa have been without power since
Monday, due to the Shelter Cove wildfire in the area.
Power was restored to other houses along Westside Road
yesterday, provided by diesel generators, but La Casa
residents have yet to see anything.
Juvina, a BC Hydro representative who declined to give
her last name, said there has been no update on the
status of the power at La Casa, and couldn't give a time
when residents might see the lights come back on.
Source: castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/144772/Still-no-power-for-La-Casa |
Valley of the Sun has had steady power since Friday July
24, 2015 at 9pm, and we are told that we will have steady power now.
UPDATE:
Westside Road re-opens
BC
Hydro gets power back up for
most
properties in fire zone
AM 1150 - 7/25/2015 by Harry Callaghan
Photo courtesy BC Hydro
Westside road is now completely open to traffic in both
directions through the fire zone.
Central Okanagan Emergency Operations reminds everyone
to watch for and give way to any emergency vehicles, or
first responders, still working on the fire.
Meanwhile, an evacuation order has been lifted, but an
evacuation alert remains in place for about 70
properties in the area.
Residents should be prepared to leave on short notice
should conditions with the fire change.
At last report, the fire was
560 hectares in size,
but the rain and cooler temperatures are helping in the
fire fighting efforts.
BC Wildfire said Friday the blaze was 25-percent
contained.
BC Hydro says generators are now in place restoring
power to the properties affected by the Westside Road
fire and power should also be back on for parts of La
Casa Resort.
Hydro says crews will continue restoration efforts
today..and they remind everyone in the fire zone to
minimize power
usage, until the wildfire has been contained, and
workers can get in to fully repair the system.
They ask that you only plug in and turn on what's
needed.
Source:
am1150.ca/News/Kelowna/2015/07/25/update-westside-road-re-opens |
Here is a photo we took on Thursday July 23, 2015 at 9:27am
We thought they were putting in poles to bring in power
from the Vernon end :(
BC Hydro's Generator at Westshore Estates
July 25, 2015 about 9am, we spent 18 minutes
waiting for BC Hydro to answer their phone.
When they finally did answer we made a few suggestions.
1. BC Hydro updates on CORD Emergency's website.
2. Better job of BC Hydro communicating with its customers.
3. Less wait times on the phone contacting BC Hydro.
BC Hydro told us that the power should be staying on now.
We suggest that you also phone BC Hydro
to make a complaint about BC Hydro's communication skills for next time.
We doubt we will be told when BC Hydro will be
disconnecting us again to hook up to the proper lines once the lines that were
damaged by fire are repaired. We are only hooked up to a generator at
Westshore Estates until the lines are repaired.
Valley of the Sun was still without power for most of
Friday July 24, 2015 until 9pm?
We tried to call BC Hydro to find out more about the
generator being set up at Westshore and when it may be running, and even BC
Hydro itself couldn't tell us anything.
Very poor communication between BC Hydro and residents.
PISS POOR COMMUNICATION TO BE EXACT!!
EVEN BETWEEN BC HYDRO CREWS AND BC HYDRO!!
Harper
in Kelowna
AM1150 - 7/24/2015 by Betty Selin
Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a firsthand look at
the Westside Road Fire in what many are calling a
pre-election P-R event.
Harper shook the hands with those working the 460
hectare blaze before expressing concern for the
relentless forest fire situation across Canada. Harper
says he plans on meeting with his provincial
counterparts this fall on ways to better manage the
forest fire situation.
Premier Clark says she and Saskatchewan Premier Brad
Wall have asked the federal government to support
provinces with an enhanced military presence and a
national cache of technology that could be used during
wildfires. The premier says she believes Harper is
considering these ideas and she expects he will have
more to announce once all the blazes are out.
The Wildfire Service dramatically increased the number
of fire crews on the lines of the Westside fire. Sixty
people, backed by at least four helicopters, worked to
corral the uncontained fire, which has forced the
evacuation of 70 properties but -- thanks to the efforts
of the firefighters -- has not yet claimed any homes.
Crews continue to mop-up the area along Westside Road,
which is still closed near the fire.
Source: am1150.ca/News/Vernon/2015/07/24/harper-in-kelowna |
Powerless residents miffed
Castanet.net - by Nicholas Johansen |
Story: 144772 - Jul 24, 2015
A powerless store at La Casa has reportedly lost
hundreds of dollars in perishable merchandise.
Residents at La Casa Resort on Westside Road have gone
almost four full days without power – and they are not
happy about it.
BC Hydro disconnected electricity to approximately 1,400
residents Monday night once the Shelter Cove wildfire
took off, to protect fire crews.
On Thursday, BC Hydro began rotating power to 900
residents along Westside Road, 300 at a time for
six-hour periods. But, La Casa was not included in the
rotations.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” said Robin Shaw, a
resident of La Casa. “BC Hydro has to be accountable for
the 300 and some residents who have to lose all their
meats and food, as well as rental money for people.”
Mora Scott, spokesperson for BC Hydro, said the utility
company couldn’t include La Casa in the rotating power
service because the demand there is too high.
“The system was reconfigured to provide power to the
largest number of customers possible and, unfortunately,
the load in the La Casa subdivision was too high for the
low-capacity line that serves that area. So, we weren’t
able to include them in that rotation,” Scott said.
“There’s a heavier load in that area … we did try to
pick up that load at one point, and unfortunately it was
too much for that line.”
BC Hydro said in a statement Thursday that La Casa
Resort would be provided power from diesel generators
starting this morning. Shaw said that has yet to happen.
“When I phoned an hour ago (11 a.m.), they said they had
no idea when it would be restored.”
Scott said at 1:15 p.m. La Casa would be receiving power
from diesel generators “probably in the next few
minutes.”
As of 1:45 p.m., that power had yet to be restored.
Shaw said she is speaking on behalf of all 300 residents
of the neighbourhood when she says they are frustrated
by La Casa being singled out.
“What we have a problem with is that every other
residence on Westside Road here has had power but us –
it’s just not fair.”
She said people in her neighbourhood have been forced to
throw out thousands of dollars worth of meats and other
perishable foods. Shaw is also concerned for those who
aren’t living in their homes at the moment.
“There’s several people who aren’t here and can’t get up
here. Their fridges are just going to be filled with
rotten meat. God knows if it’s leaked onto their
floors.”
Shaw said she’s sure BC Hydro can do better.
“It always comes off that they’re doing the best they
can. Well, they’re not. It’s just not acceptable in this
day and age.”
Source: castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/144772/Powerless-residents-miffed |
|
POWER WILL BE
RESTORED FRIDAY AT ABOUT 1PM BUT NOT BEFORE THE POWER
GOES OUT AGAIN MAYBE AT 11AM
July 24, 2015 at 10:32am
We talked to the North Westside
Road Director and our power will be going out between
11am and 1pm so hydro can hook everyone up with a
generator station they set up at Westshore Estates we
are told. Its a generator station and not a line coming
in from the Vernon end. We are to keep our power
consumption down.
We called our Director because
we wanted to make a complaint that there is nothing on
CORD Emergency's website about our BC Hydro power,
and when we tried to call the CORD Emergency using the
number from their website, there was no answer. We
tried calling RDCO as well, and RDCO told us that we
would have to call BC Hydro to find out what BC Hydro is
doing. Our Director said that
CORD Emergency is set up so that there is a BC Hydro
liaison officer at
CORD Emergency. |
Generators bring power
Castanet.net - by Jennifer Zielinski |
Story: 144701 - Jul 23, 2015
BC Hydro customers who have been in the dark since
Monday due to the Shelter Cove wildfire will finally be
provided power.
Thursday morning, BC Hydro delivered diesel generating
units to West Kelowna that will be integrated into the
power system and hopefully be up and running on Friday.
The temporary units will provide continuous electricity
to customers who are receiving power on a rotational
basis and the La Casa subdivision. Customers directly in
the fire zone will remain without power until BC Hydro
is permitted access to the area impacted by the fire.
BC Hydro will continue to provide power on a rotating
basis to customers until the generating units are
running. Currently, there are three rotations, each six
hours long and providing power to 300 customers at a
time.
If system conditions permit, BC Hydro will add
additional customers to the rotations.
BC Hydro is asking impacted customers to minimize their
power usage until the wildfire has been contained and
crews are able to fully repair the system. Please plug
in and turn on only what is necessary.
Source: castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/144701/Generators-bring-power |
Generators to provide full power to most Westside Road
homes by Friday
July 22, 2015 - Power By Megan Turcato
- Reporter Global News
Watch Above: Many on Westside Road deal with multi-day
power outage caused by the Shelter Cove Fire.
UPDATE: BC Hydro has delivered diesel generating units
to Westside Road customers and hopes to have them up and
running to provide continuous power by Friday. In the
meantime, the homes are still have power on a rotating
basis. Customers directly in the fire zone are still
without power as it is unsafe for BC Hydro to access the
area.
Many of the B.C. Hydro customers who have been living
without power since Monday evening should soon have
their power restored – albeit temporarily.
Hydro said late Wednesday afternoon that it planned to
begin providing rotating power to 900 of the 1,100
customers still without power.
“There will be three rotations, each six hours long,
providing power to 300 customers at a time. Customers
can expect to receive six hours of power during an
18-hour cycle,” the crown corporation said in a press
release.
However, 200 B.C. Hydro customers “directly in the fire
zone” and the La Casa Resort will not be included in the
rotating power scheme.
WATCH: Reporter Ted Chernecki has more on how the La
Casa Resort has been impacted by the wildfire
The outage started Monday evening when the utility says
it was asked to de-energize a power line after the
Westside Road Wildfire burnt through it.
“We did this for the safety of the crews fighting the
fire and it impacted about 1,400 customers,” said B.C.
Hydro spokesperson Mora Scott.
Tuesday night they were able to restore power to about
300 customers, leaving 1,100 still without power
Wednesday.
The power loss has also caused water issues. The
Regional District of Central Okanagan had to bring in
emergency generators for two of their water systems in
the area.
The local electoral area director, Wayne Carson, says
some were without water in the interim, but their
service has since been restored. The regional district
says reservoirs never dipped below 65 per cent capacity,
indicating only a small number of people could have lost
water.
The pump house for a private water system in the Fintry
area was also impacted by the outage, leaving around 80
customers without water. Fintry Utilities Limited says
its system is too old to accommodate a generator. Those
customers have also been put on a boil water notice.
Source: http://globalnews.ca/news/2126395/generators-to-provide-full-power-to-most-westside-road-homes-by-friday/ |
Progress made on Westside Road
Fire
7/22/2015 - by Glen Burgess - AM 1150
NewsProgress
is being made on the Westside Road Fire.
It remains at 430 hectares in size.
Incident Commander Glen Burgess says while the fire is
zero percent contained, the hard work is paying off.
"Absolutely we are making progress. More resources
showed up yesterday, so we have three times the crews we
had out here the day before. We are making progress and
our priority is Westside Road and protecting the homes
and the values".
Burgess admits they've learned significantly more since
the Okanagan Mountain Park Fire in 2003.
"Since 2003, the one thing is we have is more resources
readily available particularly the twenty person
sustained action crews. I think we have become a little
more versed in the incident command system, so our
structure and our ability to work with partners like the
fire departments and things like that, we have more of a
common language", Burgess added.
Burgess says retardant is being used to eliminate the
fire from spreading.
Source:
am1150.ca/News/Kelowna/2015/07/22/progress-made-on-westside-road-fire |
July 21, 2015
It really sucks when the power goes out during a Forest
Fire
Power was out overnight from about 11pm until the next
afternoon for Valley of the Sun. Then the power went out for a little bit
again and came back on, but Lower Fintry still doesn't have power we are told.
Did you know though that two properties at Lower Fintry
have power but nobody else does?
BC Hydro's June 29 and 30th, 2015 report after the outage was
over.
There was close to 3,000 people without power
June 30, 2015 the power was out from 10:56pm until 11:25am
June 29, 2015 power was out from 9:01pm until 11:18pm
click image for a larger copy
Another Power Outage August 3, 2014 from 6:46am - approx.
9:10am
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click for a larger copy
January 26, 2015 Regional District of Central Okanagan
Regular Board Meeting Minutes
5. CORRESPONDENCE
5.1 District of West Kelowna re: Single
Radial Electrical Line from Merritt to West Kelowna, Westbank
First Nation, Peachland, Regional District of Central Okanagan
Electoral Area West, Penticton Indian Band and RDOS Electoral
Area F (for information) (All Directors - Unweighted Vote)
District of West Kelowna's letter of
October 21, 2014 outlined a request for support of a petition to
BC Hydro to commit to providing an alternate, secondary
electrical transmission line to service this growing region.
West Kelowna is
requesting support for their efforts to have BC Hydro commit to
providing an alternate secondary electrical transmission line to
service this growing region.
BAKER/BASRAN
THAT the Regional Board receive for information the letter from
the District of West Kelowna regarding the Single Radial
Electrical Line from Merritt to West Kelowna, Westbank First
Nation, Peachland, Regional District of Central Okanagan
Electoral Area West, Penticton Indian Band and RDOS Electoral
Area F;
AND FURTHER THAT the Regional Board supports the initiative of
the District of West Kelowna to work with BC Hydro to commit to
providing an alternate secondary electrical transmission line to
service this growing region.
CARRIED Unanimously
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January 26, 2014 audio of entire RDCO Board meeting - .mp3
(20.0
MB)
January 26, 2015 audio of RDCO Board meeting only about Item 5.1
District Of West Kelowna Single Radial Electrical Line -
.wma (3.30 MB)
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THOMPSON OKANAGAN COLUMBIA COMMUNITY RELATIONS 2014 ANNUAL REPORT
SEPTEMBER 2014
*Note, these are only snippets,
please click link above for entire content
RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE
In
Fiscal 2014, the BC Hydro average interruption duration per customer
was 2.30 hours compared to 2.34 hours in Fiscal 2013.
The average number of interruptions per customer in Fiscal
2014 was 1.56 compared to 1.60 in Fiscal 2013. These statistics also
include interruptions due to planned outages. page 4
The lifespan of a distribution pole is
approximately 40 to 50 years, but simply using the age of a pole is
not an accurate method to determine its reliability, therefore
BC Hydro inspects poles regularly.
GRANTS-IN-LIEU
BC Hydro pays net property tax and grant payments to local
governments. The grant program is a Provincial Government initiative
and the amounts paid are determined under the current
legislation. Listed below are the grants paid to each community in
the Thompson Okanagan Columbia region as at June 30, 2014.
page 6
click for a larger copy of these
grants-in-lieu |
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THOMPSON OKANAGAN COLUMBIA COMMUNITY RELATIONS 2014
ANNUAL REPORT SEPTEMBER 2014
*Note, these
are only snippets, please click link above for
entire content
RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE
In Fiscal 2014, the BC Hydro
average interruption duration per customer was 2.30
hours compared to 2.34 hours in Fiscal 2013.
The average number of interruptions per
customer in Fiscal 2014 was 1.56 compared to 1.60 in
Fiscal 2013. These statistics also include
interruptions due to planned outages. page 4
The lifespan of
a distribution pole is approximately 40 to 50 years,
but simply using the age of a pole is not an
accurate method to determine its reliability,
therefore BC Hydro inspects poles regularly.
page 5
GRANTS-IN-LIEU
BC Hydro pays net property tax and grant payments to
local governments. The grant program is a Provincial
Government initiative and the amounts paid are
determined under the current legislation. Listed
below are the grants paid to each community in the
Thompson Okanagan Columbia region as at June
30, 2014. page 6 |
Lake Country loses power
Kelowna Daily Courier - June 18,
2014 - Daily Courier Staff
A toppled power pole left more than 2,400 Lake
Country and Westside Road residents without power
for several hours Wednesday.
Dag Sharman, B.C. Hydro
community relations manager, said the power company
does not know why the pole came down, but they are
investigating. He said three other poles also had to
be straightened before power could be restored.
Power went out at 10 a.m. and Sharman did not expect
it to be back on until 6 p.m.
Several Westside Road
residents lost power because an underwater cable
connecting to the Westside was fed through the
downed powerline on the Lake Country side of the
lake. |
Lake
Country power outage
Almost 25-hundred customers affected
AM1150 - 6/18/2014 2:32:00 PM by
Harry Callaghan
Almost 25-hundred BC Hydro customers are without
power this afternoon in Lake Country and along
Westside Road, north of Lake Okanagan Resort, after
a hydro pole became dislodged and fell over.
BC Hydro's Dag Sharman told AM 1150 News 2,489
customers have had no power since 10:00 this
morning.
"It's difficult to access the site where they have
to replace that pole, so it's a lot of work. They
also have to straighten about three other poles, so
all of that work will take some time. We estimate we
will have power restored by 4:00 pm this afternoon,"
he said.
Sharman said they have not yet determined how the
pole came down. |
Lake
Country power restored
Castanet.net - by Ragnar Haagen |
Story: 117454 - Jun 18, 2014
UPDATE 6:00 P.M.
Power to 2,500 Lake Country customers was restored
around 5:40 p.m, after losing power at 10 a.m. Wednesday
morning.
'Equipment Failure' is being listed as the cause and it
is still unclear why the power pole on Okanagan Centre
Road fell down.
A resident in the area did report to police that the
pole was leaning at a sharp angle yesterday, and today
it completely fell over.
UPDATE 3:30 P.M.
BC Hydro latest update says power should be restored by
6 p.m., six hours later then the initial estimate.
UPDATE 2:30 P.M.
Nearly 2,500 people are still without power in Lake
Country after a power pole fell and knocked out service.
The pole fell just before 10 a.m. knocking out power to
the surrounding area and closing a section of Okanagan
Centre Road while crews dealt with the live wire on the
road.
BC Hydro originally estimated power would be back on by
noon but now say power should be restored by 4 p.m.
ORIGINAL
Nearly 3,000 people in Lake Country are without power
Wednesday morning after a hydro pole became dislodged
and fell over.
The affected area is between Highway 97 and Okanagan
Centre Road, near Goldie Road. Traffic is not getting
through, as police at the scene say there is a live wire
and are awaiting hydro crews. Some residents across the
lake on Westside Road may also be affected.
BC Hydro says 2,865 customers are in the dark and they
estimate that power will be restored by noon.
The live wire caused a small brushfire near the base of
the pole, but that was quickly extinguished.
A resident in the area has reported to police that the
pole was leaning at a sharp angle yesterday, and today
it completely fell over.
-- With files from Carmen Weld |
POWER WAS OFF FOR 7 HOURS 39 MINUTES
BC Hydro Power Outage June 18, 2014 9:58am -
5:37pm (7 hours 39 minutes) 2,489 properties due to a power pole that was
reported earlier falling over. BC Hydros LATEST UPDATE
BC Hydro Power Outage June 18, 2014 9:58am -
5:37pm (7 hours 39 minutes) 2,489 properties due to a power pole that was
reported earlier falling over.
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Smart Meter
Protest JUNE 14, 2014
We are organizing a National Day of Protest against
Hydro companies and Smart Meters on June 14, 2014.
Tentative locations: Campbell River, Nanaimo, Victoria,
Vancouver, Kelowna and Shuswap. Get involved. Plan on
attending to make sure Hydro knows we are angry and are
not caving. To get involved and help, email
Linda "at"
citizensforsafetechnology.org.
This came by email so there is no
link. |
$35.00 per month if you don't take a Smart Meter by Dec 1, 2013
click letter from BC Hydro saying install a smart meter by Dec 1, 2013 or pay
$35 per month to keep your old meter.
ANYBODY ELSE NOT GET A HYDRO BILL Dec 2013?
Jan 2, 2014 we called BC Hydro asking where our BC Hydro Bill was. We are
still on the old analogue meter. We were told that the meter reader had
not read our meter since June 2013 despite getting bills from Hydro in August
and October 2013. We notice now on our October 2013 BC Hydro bill that it
does say its just an estimate and its in smaller print. We never noticed
that small print. We were wondering why our bill always seems to be about
the same despite thinking we used more electricity than that, and now we know
why. Hydro said they could send us a bill with the meter reading we phoned
in on Dec 13, 2013, and that BC Hydro will not be taking a reading until Feb
2014. We asked for a bill with our meter reading on it.
When we first tried to phone in our meter reading on Dec 9, 2013 BC Hydro would
not take our reading unless the reading was to even up payment for the averaging
system. We are not on the averaging system and our bill is suppose to
fluctuate with the amount of power we use. After being rejected by BC
Hydro and having a customer service company hired by Hydro to query us about the
problem we had with BC Hydro taking our meter reading, we heard that BC Hydro
was taking readings from customers so we phoned our reading in again on Dec 13,
2013 and BC Hydro took our reading then. But still why did we not receive
a bill. Hydro never misses sending us a bill in years? Why didn't
they just estimate our bill like they have been doing since June 2013?
click the bill to see a larger image
You can see on this bill from August 15, 2013 that it does say,
"Your bill shows an estimate"
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You can see on this bill from June 2013 that it does not say,
"Your bill shows an estimate"
BC Hydro really hasn't read our meter since June 12, 2013.
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Minister
says no to 26% hydro increase
Castanet.net - by Wayne Moore - Kelowna - Story:
98247 - Sep 11, 2013
Provincial Energy Minister, Bill Bennett says fears of a pending
sky-high rate increase by BC Hydro are unfounded.
In West Kelowna for a Liberal Party Caucus meeting, Bennett says
rumours of a 26 per cent or 27 per cent increase by BC Hydro are
simply that - rumours.
And, he says a document leaked by a BC Hydro employee containing
those numbers are from meeting one of a series of five meetings
aimed at looking at rate increases.
"I have tasked these folks with trying to figure out how we can take
some of that pressure off rates - so the numbers in that document
don't reflect what the actual rate increases will be when we get to
that which is a few months away," Bennett told assembled media
following a caucus photo op at the Cove Resort.
Bennett did state, as he has since taking over the portfolio in
June, that rates will have to go up.
"I've said that right from the beginning. There is a lot of pressure
on rates from the investments BC Hydro has to make in
infrastructure," says Bennett.
"We all expect to be able to plug in our toaster, operate our pulp
mill, operate our mine and have a reliable source of electricity.
The only way we can keep our electricity system reliable in the
province is to continue to invest in it."
Bennett says BC Hydro is investing $1.2B in infrastructure every
year in transmission lines, new generation projects and being
smarter in terms of conservation.
And, while a few current projects are over budget, Bennett believes
officials at the utility are managing things 'fairly well.'
"BC Hydro does many things very, very well. A lot of their projects
are under budget," says Bennett.
"They have a three year capital project plan and, even though they
have two projects that are over budget, overall their capital
project budget is under budget."
As for the size of the rate increase, Bennett says it's too early to
speculate, however, he does acknowledge that some 'catch-up' has to
occur after both the NDP and the Liberals held the line on any form
of increase from 1993 until 2003. |
It took BC Hydro 16 hours 12 minutes to remove and install
this pole?
Hydro's triple-play power outage
Castanet.net - by Wayne Moore | Story:
93931 - Jun 20, 2013
Photo: Adam Proskiw
Burnt pole being replaced in the 3900 block of Westside
Rd.
Photo: Contributed - BC Hydro of the
area affected by the outage
2:00 p.m. update: Employees of Advanced Powerlines are
on scene attempting to restore power for the over 1000
homes still without power in Lake Country.
It has been confirmed that an Osprey nest built atop a
power line on Westside Road partially fell apart and
dropped into a sensitive area, causing a fire and
knocking out power.
Ruth Swystun and Reid Hanson-Street, employees at Lake
Okanagan Resort have passed the time playing boardgames.
"We have a stock of board games for guests so we thought
we'd try them out," says Ruth.
"Most people are understanding be there is always at
least one guest who blames us or can't understand how
this could happen."
The pair are worried about the cold food in the store,
joking they'll have to eat a lot of ice cream today.
"We'll stay until it comes back on," said Ruth.
"It'll be a long day, but not a
hard one," said Ruth.
11:15 a.m. update: Over 1100 homes could be without
power until 5 p.m. today.
Service for over 1,700 customers was cut off this
morning at around 2:30 a.m., small patches of customers
have had power restored.
The length of the outage has tripped alarms and
frustrated residents. Phone and internet were also
affected as backup batteries failed and plug-in phones
died along with internet modems.
BC Hydro Manager of Community Relations, Dag Sherman
says, "The issue is a pole fire started by an Osprey's
nest. Heavy sticks soaked with rain ignited the fire
that took out the whole pole along Westside Rd."
Sherman says crews have restored power to 300 homes, but
1,467 homes could be out until 5 p.m. today, as the
whole pole has to be replaced.
This is the third power outage in the area in 10-days,
one of those outages lasted 13 hours.
Sherman says crews are working as fast as they can to
fix the problem.
Crews are on site, but are they working fast enough? Are
you frustrated with BC Hydro? How have these extended
outages affected you? Has your business been hurt by the
outages? Send us your letters to letters@castanet.net.
Photo: Adam Proskiw
Burnt pole being replaced in the 3900 block of Westside
Rd.
Update 10 a.m. - Power has been restored to nearly 300
customers. According to BC Hydro, about 1,467 customers
remain without power. The area affected is now pegged as
south of Whitemans Creek Road and west of Carrs Landing
Road.
More than 1,700 BC Hydro customers are getting used to
living in the dark.
For the third time in 10 days, power to customers
between Lake Country and Vernon north of Westside Road
and south of Northern View Drive are without power
Thursday.
According to BC Hydro's website, power went off about
2:30 Thursday morning and is not expected to b restored
until about supper time.
Fire is the stated cause of the outage.
One resident was told an osprey nest caught fire.
The same region was without power for 13 hours on June
11 and 12 for reasons not stated and again for four
hours Jun 14 because of a wind storm.
A few homes in the Harris Creek Road and 29 Street area
in Vernon are also without power. |
This is starting to become a regular occurrence!!!
POWER OUTAGE IN THE NORTH WESTSIDE June 20, 2013
Power was out between 2:29am - 6:41pm at Valley of the Sun Westside Road
Hydro first said on its message machine that it was due to a fire, and that the
estimated time of restoration was 5:00am. The last message said power
would be restored at 5pm, then it was 6pm.
We called CHBC to complain about the long power outages as of late, and were
told that it was an Osprey that fell on the line and started the pole on fire at
Jenny Creek, and that there were a lot of lines on that pole.
It took BC Hydro 16 hours 12 minutes to remove and install a new pole?
The last estimated time of restoration was suppose to be 6pm but when we called
at 6:20pm BC Hydro didn't give an estimate of restoration but instead asked us
to leave our phone number for a call back. We received a call back at
7:31pm saying that the power had been restored and if our power was still out to
give BC Hydro a call, but the power had already been on for 50 minutes when BC
Hydro called.
BC Hydro's website said the CAUSE was A BIRD CONTACTING OUR WIRES
click image to read about the outages June 14 and
June 20, 2013 as seen on BC Hydro's website
POWER OUTAGE IN THE NORTH WESTSIDE June 14, 2013
Valley of the Sun power was out from 1am - 3:00am (2 hours)
CAUSE: WINDSTORM IT SAID ON THE NET
BC Hydro's website said that on June 14 power was out from
12:55am - 4:10 am (so power was out for
3 hours 15 minutes)
POWER OUTAGE IN THE NORTH WESTSIDE June 11, 2013
Valley of the Sun power was out for 10 hours from 5:30pm - 3:30am
Killiney Beach power did not come back on until 6:30am
Most of
Westshore Estates lost power and on the frontage road they still had power but their Shaw cable
TV did not work.
CAUSE: OTHER, IT SAID ON THE NET
BUT BC HYDRO TOLD US IT WAS AN UNDERGROUND CABLE THAT BROKE
click image to read about the outages June 11, 2013 as seen on BC Hydro's website
says power went out at 5:14pm June 11 and was restored at 6:34am June 12 (so
power was out for
11 hours 20 minutes)
Lights out
for thousands of Central Okanagan residents
Global News - June 20, 2013
OKANAGAN – Thousands of Okanagan residents are without power due in
part because of the rain.
According to BC Hydro, more than 600 Peachland and Summerland
residents West of Highway 97 have been without power since 9 a.m.
Thursday. Power is expected to be restored by 3 p.m. Thursday.
There’s a minor outage affecting a handful residents in the 200
block of Commonage Road in Vernon where power is expected to be
restored at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
More than 600 Westbank residents (Lipsett Ave from Aitkens Rd,
Heighway Lane, Renfrew Rd, Topham Pl, Part of Bulyea Ave to Topham
Pl, S Hwy 97 from Renfrew Rd to past North Beach Rd and including
all side roads. As well this includes all of Fish Lake, Bathville,
Shingle Creek and Isintok) have been without power since 9 a.m.
Thursday. The lights should be back on by 3 p.m. Thursday.
The largest power outage is along North Westside Road where more
than 1400 residents (South of Whitemans Creek Road, West of Carrs
Landing Road) are affected. Power won’t be restored before 5 p.m. |
Osprey
carrying fish knocks out power
Global News - April 26, 2013
More than 1500 BC Hydro customers in the Wood Lake area of Lake
Country were without power Friday morning following an outage caused
by a bird and a fish.
Powerlines came down at Highway 97 and Oyama Road mid-morning after
an osprey carrying a fish (believed to be a Kokanee) made contact
with the lines.
The incident caused a small grass fire and affected 1600 BC Hydro
customers. The outage lasted for about an hour.
The osprey and fish were found dead nearby. |
Smart Meters.com
citizensforsafetechnology.org
Sign the Smart Meter petition,
cstorg.wufoo.com/confirm/smart-meters-in-british-columbia/
click image for a larger copy to read.
BC Hydro's installation of the new smart meters, and its collection of the
aforementioned information, is mandated under
Section 17 of the Clean Energy Act.
Clean Energy Act
[SBC 2010] CHAPTER 22
This Act is Current to April 11, 2012
Part 5 — Energy Efficiency Measures and Greenhouse Gas
Reductions
Smart meters
17 (1) In this section:
"private dwelling" means
(a) a structure that is occupied as a private residence, or
(b) if only part of a structure is occupied as a private residence,
that part of the structure;
"smart grid" means the prescribed equipment;
"smart meter" means a meter that meets the prescribed requirements,
and includes related components, equipment and metering and
communication infrastructure that meet the prescribed requirements.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the authority must install and put
into operation smart meters and related equipment in accordance with
and to the extent required by the regulations.
(3)
The authority must complete all obligations imposed under subsection
(2) by the end of the 2012 calendar year.
(4) The authority must establish a program to install and put into
operation a smart grid in accordance with and to the extent required
by the regulations.
(5) The authority may, by itself, or by its engineers, surveyors,
agents, contractors, subcontractors or employees, enter on any land,
other than a private dwelling, without the consent of the owner, for
a purpose relating to the use, maintenance, safeguarding,
installation, replacement, repair, inspection, calibration or
reading of its meters, including smart meters, or of its smart grid.
(6) If a public utility, other than the authority, makes an
application under the Utilities Commission Act in relation to smart
meters, other advanced meters or a smart grid, the commission, in
considering the application, must consider the government's goal of
having smart meters, other advanced meters and a smart grid in use
with respect to customers other than those of the authority. |
Not so smart
Vernon Morning Star - September 09, 2011
BC Hydro is planning to replace our existing analog meters with
smart meters – a microwave radiation device and will make meter
readers superfluous.
There will be 1.8 million smart meters operational in B.C. by 2012
at a cost of approximately $930 million.
There has been virtually no consultation with the public in advance
of this multi-million project.
Experts say that over the past few years there has been an
exponential increase in public exposures to wireless technologies
(cell phones, cell towers, wireless internet, etc.), without proof
that this technology has no harmful health effects.
Citizens for Safe Technology says this, “There is mounting evidence
worldwide, contained in reputable peer-reviewed and published
studies and journals, showing adverse biological effects from
low-frequency, radio frequency fields.”
BC Hydro, however, claims that “there are no demonstrable health or
environmental effects from exposure to low level radio frequency."
Daniel Hirsch, a senior lecturer on nuclear policy at the University
of California, Santa Cruz, admits that it is still uncertain what
the health effects are from RF radiation, but that given the lack of
proof that they are safe, smart meters are an involuntary experiment
on a very large population. We are not being given a choice.
Dr. David Carpenter is also unequivocal about the fact that there is
no evidence that smart meters are safe and have no adverse health
effects.
He is a public health physician, a graduate of Harvard who worked
for the New York state department of health for 18 years, and was
responsible for administering the program in electromagnetic fields.
"We have evidence from other sources of radiofrequency exposure that
demonstrates convincingly and consistently that exposure to
radiofrequency radiation at elevated levels for long periods of time
increases the risk of cancer, increases damage to the nervous
system, causes electrosensitivity, has adverse reproductive effects,
and a variety of other effects on different organ systems.”
BC Hydro also implies that smart meters will save us both energy and
money. Randy Hillier, Member of Provincial Parliament in the Ontario
Legislature, on Aug. 2, referred to them as, “smart meter tax
machines,” pointing out that his constituency office hydro costs
have doubled since their installation. Only the customer can save
energy, through conservation efforts.
If you don’t tell BC Hydro that they may not change your current
meter, they can rely on “implied consent."
We can, however, take action to stop them from installing a smart
meter until issues of health and privacy have been resolved to our
satisfaction.
• Download the smart meter action kit:
citizensforsafetechnology.org/ (Pull-down menu: Communities,
Governments).
• Send BC Hydro a registered letter denying them the right to change
the current meter (BC Hydro and Power Authority, David Cobb, chief
executive officer, 333 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, B.C., V6B 5R3).
• Talk to the community groups you belong to and make a joint
presentation to your local government, persuading them to stop the
installation of these wireless smart meters until more is known
about them.
• Sign the petition,
cstorg.wufoo.com/confirm/smart-meters-in-british-columbia/
• Write or phone your MLA.
L. J. Warrington, Vernon |
Jobs lost with smart meters
Kelowna Capital News - August 19, 2011
To the editor:
We’ve been hearing a lot of concern about smart meters recently. In
addition to potential concerns raised in your paper and the
possibility of higher Hydro bills, one consequence we’re facing
immediately is the loss of nearly 400 family-supporting jobs across
B.C.
Since 2007 our union, which represents meter readers, has been
trying to get answers from BC Hydro and this government on how jobs
will be impacted, but Energy Minister Rich Coleman and Premier
Christy Clark continue to refuse to meet with meter readers or COPE
378 as their union.
We support a moratorium on smart meters until these questions can be
answered. And if smart meters end up going ahead, we want to ensure
our members get the opportunity to re-train and continue work in BC
Hydro. They have valuable institutional knowledge and are proud of
the work they do in service of our public utility and communities.
The government has a responsibility to mitigate the impact of smart
meters—starting with the 400 men and women who will lose their jobs.
Gwenne Farrell,
COPE 378 vice-president, Utilities |
Vancouver Sun News Alert July 28, 2011 said:
B.C.'s Information and Privacy Commissioner is investigating BC Hydro's smart
metering program after numerous complaints that the information collected
breaches personal privacy.
Lake Country and portions of Westside Road BC Hydro Power
Interruption August 6th and 7th, 2011
2:00am - 6:00am
Power was still off at approx. 6:30am August 7th along Westside Road, when we awoke and went back to
sleep.
Not sure what time the power came back on eventually.
The power did not go off August 6, 2011
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As
seen on BC Hydro's website August 6, 2011
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Privacy Commissioner to investigate smart meters
By CHAD SKELTON, Vancouver Sun July 28, 2011
A recent program has been developed, which would require all B.C.
homes to install wireless smart meters. B.C. Green party leader Jane
Sterk called Wednesday for an immediate halt to the program.
Photograph by: Bill Keay, PNG
B.C.'s Information and Privacy Commissioner will investigate BC
Hydro's Smart Meter program to ensure it complies with privacy laws.
In a news release this afternoon, Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said
she decided to launch the investigation after receiving numerous
complaints that the information collected by the meters may breach
personal privacy.
"The privacy and security of energy consumption data is a very real
issue for citizens throughout the province," Denham is quoted as
saying in the news release. "With an increase in the frequency of
the information collected from smart meters comes an increased
responsibility on BC Hydro to ensure that privacy and security is
built into the smart grid."
BC Hydro has already begun installing smart meters and plans to have
nearly 2 million installed in B.C. homes by the end of 2012.
Denham said in her release that BC Hydro has already been consulting
with her office about the smart meter program and has told her it
plans to co-operate fully with her investigation.
Her investigation report will be made public once it is complete.
cskelton "at" vancouversun.com
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun |
BC Hydro Public Notice of Consultation for
BC Hydro's INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at Vernon BC, Best Western Vernon Lodge among other
locations starting March 9, 2011 - April 7, 2011
Victoria, Campbell River, Vancouver, Abbotsford, Kamloops, Terrace, Prince
George, Fort St. john, Vernon, Castlegar, Fort Nelson, Cranbrook.
click notice for larger copy
Feb 27, 2011 Vernon Morning Star Notice
Planned BC Hydro Power Outage
Westside Road, B.C.
Feb 18 to March 31, 2011
8am - 5pm
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March 2011 North Westside Community News Story
*Note* This is only snippets of
the entire article
A large tree had blown over and
taken out a Hydro main and landed blocking Elliot Road
and trapping most of the residents of Estamont in their
neighbourhood. No one was going in or out of that
community as long as the tree remained.
"It was 4 am before Hydro was able to respond and
de-energize the line so that we could approach the trees
and get rid of the large pieces as well as the debris
from the roadway", said Carson.
Fire fighters were returning home around 4:30 am hoping
to get some sleep, just as the power was restored to the
lower homes.
By 6:30 am the phone at the Chiefs house was ringing
with the first calls from Westshore Estates letting him
know there was no water on Crown Crescent. Westshore
Estates was the only place that did not have "trees
down" calls
The problem in this event was Hydro's Upper Killiney
Beach got power just before noon and the 3 phase power
that the Westshore Estates reservoir pumps work on was
the last power to be returned operational until 2:30pm
Sunday afternoon and the only water that was available
was what was in the reservoirs at 11pm Saturday when the
power went out. As the system is gravity fed, water is
available to the residents until the reservoir is
emptied. There will not be any more water until the
power comes on and the reservoir fills up.
There are no emergency generators, there are no special
or extra reservoirs for the fire department to run pumps
and draw water from. There is no water to fight a fire. |
POWER WAS OFF AGAIN TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW OUT WESTSIDE ROAD, KELOWNA/VERNON
B.C.
Sunday, Feb 13, 2011 night the power went out sometime about 10:30pm or so, not
positive the exact time because we were not home, but from about midnight until at least 4:30am
we know the power was not on.... not sure what time it came back on because we
went back to sleep waking up to the lights on about 11am lol. It was
really windy and there were tree branches and pine cones strewn all over the
yard the next day.
Monday, Feb 14, 2011 the power went out again but then came back on and then
went out and on again about 5 or 6 times at Valley of the Sun and Estamont that
we are aware of, so we called BC Hydro to see if they were working on the hydro
line or something. We discussed the tree laying on the Hydro Line on
Briarwood Road at Valley of the Sun (showing in the photo below). We told
BC Hydro that we were told by a neighbour that BC Hydro wouldn't cut the tree
down that was laying on the Hydro Line on Briarwood Road because it was on
private property.
BC Hydro told us that Hydro would turn the power off for the property owner so
that the property owner could cut his tree down safely, and that it wouldn't
cost the property owner a disconnect or reconnect fee for BC Hydro to cut the
power for a bit. BC Hydro did say that BC Hydro came out last Friday just
before Sunday nights big wind storm to attend to a problem on Briarwood Road but
didn't say what BC Hydro did on Briarwood, so hopefully that tree on the hydro
line was taken care of. The neighbour who lives next to the tree has young
children that would like to play in their own yard without the parents fearing
for their own or their children's safety. It is winter around here too,
and nobody likes their power off in the cold!
Tree laying on BC Hydro's power line at Valley of the Sun on
Briarwood Road Jan 13, 2011
You can see the tree is hung up by the broken stub where a branch was broken
off. One property owner said they called BC Hydro and was told to contact
the property the tree is on. BC Hydro wouldn't take care of their hydro
line and left it up to property owners to take care of. Well the tree is
on an empty lot and apparently calling the Real Estate Agent did not garner any
results. BC Hydro doesn't care how many customers would be affected in the
dead of winter who may have no power if the tree breaks the power line due to
some wind and stress on the line, or whatever.
The tree in the photo below is leaning toward Briarwood Road and is a hazard to
people walking on the road and a hazard to the people who live next door.
click photo for larger image
There was another dead beetle kill tree that fell partly on Firwood Road around
this same time. Luckily there was no hydro line on that side of the road.
Do you feel the Fire Chief should exercise his duty to make sure fire hazards
are cleaned up?
Do you feel if we wait until summer to clean up these dead trees, one tree could
be very dangerous to the entire Westside if it fell on a hydro line creating a
fire?
If you feel that the
Regional District of Central Okanagan and/or the
North Westside Road Fire Chief
should do something to ensure that property owners look after their empty
properties so as not to destroy the neighborhood as okanaganlakebc.ca does,
please feel free to contact the
North Westside Road Fire Dept.
and/or the
Regional District of Central Okanagan, and/or your local
Central Okanagan West Director Jim Edgson.
Someone is stealing power, and it ain't North Westsiders!
Backup power source lacking in West Kelowna
By Jason Luciw - Kelowna Capital News - Published:
February 28, 2009
West Kelowna wants to know where its emergency power will come from
should something disrupt its lone source of electricity.
The municipality of 29,000 people has the dubious distinction of
being the largest community in B.C. served by a single transmission
line, which runs through the vast, remote area between downtown
Westbank and Merritt.
Coun. Carol Zanon said the BC Transmission Corporation owes the
community some answers. The corporation promised West Kelowna it
would provide an update months ago.
“There has been no information forthcoming from the BC Transmission
Corporation yet they appeared here last June and told us we would
have more information in the fall.”
In the fall, council was simply told that the transmission
corporation was “working on it,” said Zanon.
“I’d like to hear something more specific.”
West Kelowna residents should be told what load growth the system
can handle as it stands now and how reliable power really is.
“I would like to know if they have an emergency plan in case
something happens like what happened up in the North Westside a
couple of (months) ago.”
On Dec. 20 and 21, hundreds of residents in Westshores Estates were
left without power for 36 hours during an extreme cold snap. The
outdated system was overloaded. Residents in surrounding
neighbourhoods were without power for approximately 12 hours.
In October 2007, West Kelowna was left without power for up to 10
hours after a fire destroyed a single, remote utility pole. Crews
were helicoptered in to make repairs.
Mayor Doug Findlater said a wildfire is also a possible threat in
the future, given the heavily forested area the existing line runs
through.
The transmission corporation has sent Findlater an update of its
plan to provide a backup transmission line to West Kelowna. However,
money and time remain obstacles.
The corporation has just filed a $5.3 billion, 10-year capital plan
with the BC Utilities Commission, which includes a “$37-million
Westbank, 138-kilovolt system reconfiguration to improve reliability
of supply.”
Unfortunately the improvements wouldn’t be completed until 2014.
Transmission corporation spokeswoman Donna McGeachie said it takes
eight to 10 years to get a new transmission line under construction
because rights of way must be secured, environmental assessments
need to be conducted and the public, stakeholders and First Nations
are consulted.
In the meantime, the corporation is waiting for the utility
commission’s permission to spend $1.5 million on an initial study of
the options, which can hopefully get underway late this year.
There are currently three options being considered.
A second line could be sunk into Okanagan Lake connecting BC Hydro’s
Westbank substation to the FortisBC transmission line in Kelowna to
the east; a backup system could be constructed several kilometres
north of the existing Merritt to Westbank line running west; or a
secondary transmission could be linked to the Vernon terminal in the
north.
jluciw [at] kelownacapnews.com |
September 10, 2009 Governance & Services Committee Meeting Minutes
3.2 Fortis BC - Ian Dyck, Project Manager and Bob Gibney re: 2009
Resource Plan UpdateIan Dyck and Bob Gibney provided a status
update on FortisBC's resource planning initiative. The 2009 Resource
Plan was filed with the BC Utilities Commission in late May. It
deals with the long term generation needs and provides new
information and analysis on current and forecasted energy
requirements, current resource adequacy and develops the strategy to
close forecasted gaps. Shortage of capacity and options for demand
management were reviewed (target is to meet 50% of incremental
resource needs via DSM measures by 2020).
Concerns include capacity, cost of electricity on the open market
(no
control), transmission lines between US and BC and Alberta and BC
constrained resources which is growing with time. It was
noted that net metering will begin in October 09. Sites for
resources have not yet been defined but different locations are
being reviewed.
#GS74/09 SHEPHERD/HODGE
THAT the presentation on FortisBC's Resource Planning Initiative be
received.
CARRIED |
Electrical cable set below lake to enhance electricity service
Kelowna Capital News - July 29, 2010
BC Hydro is reinforcing electrical service to Westside Road
customers.
New electrical submarine cables spanning
more than 3.6 kilometres are currently being installed under
Okanagan Lake from Lake Country to Westside Road.
These four new cables will replace the existing three aging cables
that have been serving customers on Westside Road for more than 25
years.
This $2.3-million investment in local infrastructure is part of BC
Hydro’s overall investment of $1.77 billion this year to upgrade
electrical infrastructure in the province.
“This project will improve the reliability of electrical service to
B.C. Hydro’s Westside Road customers,” said B.C. Hydro’s community
relations coordinator, Gene Bryant. “We are working quickly to
ensure that the cables are installed in time to meet this winter’s
high demand.
“That deadline combined with fisheries approvals means we have a
limited work window this summer.”
The east end foreshore area is now considered protected kokanee
spawning habitat, so B.C. Hydro’s team engineered a solution to
place the cables under the beach without disturbing the surface or
the spawning habitat.
The project involves the use of a specialized barge, cable laying
equipment and divers. The project is expected to be completed in
early August. |
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June
22, 2009 Regional District of Central Okanagan Regional Board
Minutes 3.2 Union of BC Municipalities re: Working
Roundtable on Forestry and BC Utilities Commission Inquiry Into Long
Term Transmission Needs (All Directors - Unweighted Vote)
UBCM provided an update on their Community Economic Development
Committee's work on forestry and the BC Utilities Commission which
included encouraging local governments to register participants in
the Inquiry to provide an
opportunity to raise specific interests.
Director Edgson noted that there are transmission concerns in the
North Westside and that he will summarize the concerns and send the
information to staff to be forwarded to UBCM. The District of West
Kelowna also has concerns regarding transmission lines. Their
Council will be discussing this shortly and will also provide
feedback to UBCM.
BAKER/REID
THAT the June 16th letter from UBCM regarding the Working Roundtable
on Forestry and BC Utilities Commission Inquiry into long term
transmission needs be received;
AND FURTHER THAT directors forward any transmission concerns to
staff in order that the information can be forwarded to UBCM.
CARRIED |
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Regional District of Central Okanagan Regular Board Meeting Minutes
– February 26, 2007 (Pg. 2-3)
3. CORRESPONDENCE
3.1 Regional District of Central Kootenay re: Fair Compensation from
BC Hydro for Transmission and Distribution Lines (All Directors -
Unweighted Vote) The Regional District of Central Kootenay has requested support for
the findings in the report “Fair Compensation from BC Hydro for
Transmission and Distribution Lines” and requests that the Regional
Board communicate their support to them in order to facilitated a
unified approach to the BC Minister of Finance. It was noted that it
is believed the same legislation does not apply to FortisBC lines.
#64/07 DINWOODIE/HANSON
THAT the January 31, 2007 letter from the Regional District of
Central Kootenay regarding Fair Compensation from BC Hydro for
Transmission and Distribution Lines be received;
AND FURTHER THAT the Regional Board of the Regional District of
Central Okanagan supports the findings of the January 19, 2007
report titled “Fair Compensation from BC Hydro for Transmission and
Distribution Lines”, namely – that
Regional Districts are not receiving benefits from the 55,000
kilometres of distribution lines and 17,533 kilometres of
transmission lines in the rural areas of the province, while all
other forms of government are receiving a benefit
– and urges the Minister of Finance, the Honourable Carole Taylor,
to implement a fair method of compensation to regional districts in
the province based on her stated strong belief that Crown
Corporations, wherever possible, should compete on a level playing
field. CARRIED |
If the highway is too crowded during rush hour, do you ask people to stay at
work until after rush hour, or make more lanes?
BC Hydro Public
Meeting
Killiney Beach Hall
February 12, 2009 @ 7:00 PM
One resident attending the B.C. Hydro meeting held at Killiney Beach Feb 12,
2009 wanted to know why Westshore Estates and Killiney Beach couldn't get their
power from the newer Armstrong power station and why does BC Hydro feed the
power all the way from Vernon to Winfield and then across Okanagan Lake near Lake Okanagan Resort and then finally back to Westshore Estates. Jim Edgson rose to the question and said it was due to
Federal property (Reserve Land) between Parker Cove and Westshore and that is
all he would spit out basically. In the letter BC Hydro had available
(below) it states something about right-of-ways etc.
Okanagan Lake Resort was at the meeting and said that they had some equipment or
something that blew up during the outage and that now these things needed
replacing, and that when the power did come back on, it came on during peak
charges time. It was stated that Okanagan Lake Resort are on a 3 tiered
system and pay one rate for a certain period of the day and pay another rate for
another certain period of the day, etc.. Apparently this contributed to a
higher than normal power bill having the power come back on during the peak
charge period.
There was one resident whom spoke at the BC Hydro meeting that seemed to want to blame the
problem on grow ops and basically called the community a power thief, and what
could Hydro do about people who steal power and who grow pot? As okanaganlakebc.ca
understands BC Hydro about the Westside Road power problem, it may not be the
people whom steal power or grow marijuana from the way BC Hydro describes the problem, its more like BC
Hydro is trying to feed too many homes without any upgrades for a very long
time. Some here would take offense at someone calling Westside Roaders power
thieves, especially since its BC Hydro that needs to upgrade, which BC Hydro
basically admits in the letter below. What
do you think Hydro is going to do when all the new electric vehicles get on the
road, blame that problem on people stealing power and growing pot too ... we can see
that this may be a future problem. Like BC
Hydro said the power line is like a highway and if everyone is on it at once, it
gets crowded.
But if the highway is
too crowded during rush hour, do you ask people to not drive during that time, or do you make more
lanes?
Well it looks like BC Hydro is finally going to make some more lanes.
At the BC Hydro standing room only meeting, BC Hydro told residents what they
could and couldn't talk about and then when they did speak they were told they couldn't speak
right now but after the meeting... many people left part
way through the meeting. One thing we remember BC Hydro telling residents
was that they were not permitted to talk about other
communities.
BC Hydro said that power lines are like a highway and you can't have
everyone on the same highway all at once and that is why when they tried to get Westshore
Estates
up and running that BC Hydro had a hard time and couldn't get the power to stay on.
Everyone probably had their heat cranked on high for when the power did come
back on. If
residents heat had been off for 3 days, why wouldn't residents want to crank the
heat up when the power came back on? BC Hydro asks everyone to turn
everything off during a power outage until the power comes back on and
stabilizes a bit. Does BC Hydro want residents to go longer
without power, as that is what it looks like it boils down to. If BC Hydro had more
lanes then there wouldn't have been such a problem. BC Hydro doesn't seem to
realize until after the fact how close they are to the end LOL, and the hardships they
have put North Westsider's through on the coldest day of the whole winter when
its minus 20! Some people were without electricity for 3 days, and
when it does finally come back on, BC Hydro tells you to turn your thermostat
down?? BC Hydro had enough power to get the other subdivisions going in
the first day because there was enough power for them but there wasn't enough
power for the people farther down at the end of the line.
One more thing that BC Hydro said at the meeting is that people are either
stealing power out here or there are grow ops and that there is some unaccounted
for power but they didn't have a figure. Then BC Hydro told us almost in
the same breath that they can't tell if someone is stealing power without
climbing the pole and even then they don't notice as the power thieves are
getting more sophisticated and can perform a better job these days covering the
connections with spray foam insulation, etc. Wonder how many people got
caught stealing power out here? BC Hydro must have that information if
they were caught. Maybe we could dig into this a little more?
This is how okanaganlakebc.ca understands it:
Hydro is considering changing the existing single phase transmission line that
comes in from Armstrong to a three phase line, and Jim Edgson the Regional
Director said they can't because
of a Federal property problem. Don't ask me what Federal property is but
maybe its the OKIB reserve property? So
instead Hydro gives us a line that originates at the Vernon
station which feeds the Wood Lake Distribution centre and then it crosses Okanagan Lake
near Lake Okanagan Resort and travels
back to Westshore Estates whom is at the end of the line. 1/2 of the
submarine cables power feeds Westside Road North and the other half of the
cables power feeds Westside Road South from near Lake Okanagan Resort. There is already single phase power
from Parker Cove to Pinecrest Road at Westshore Estates that comes from Armstong and apparently during the power outage
the one side of Pinecrest Road at Westshore Estates had power and the other side
of the road didn't. The one side of the road being on the single phase
power line originating in Armstrong that runs to Parker Cove then to Westshore
and the other side of the road being on the transmission line shown on the map
below from Woods Lake hydro substation at Winfield. Apparently the Wood
Lake substation is older and the Armstrong station is much newer.
Here is a map BC Hydro had available at the meeting of the power line originating at Vernon which feeds Wood Lake
substation and then heads across Okanagan Lake at Lake Okanagan Resort and then
heads down Westside Road to Westshore Estates to the end. Apparently this one
submarine line currently in place was put in place for Lake Okanagan Resort
years ago and its life may be getting short.
This map BC Hydro had available at the meeting shows the
submarine electrical cable crossing Okanagan Lake
from
Woods Lake in Winfield BC to Westside Road
The map above and the two letters below were available at the
meeting held at Killiney Beach Hall Feb 12, 2009.
Currently Feb 12, 2009 BC Hydro says there is only one submarine electrical
cable strung across Okanagan Lake that runs from the south of Carrs Landing to
just north of Lake Okanagan Resort.
But there are so many grow ops at Westshore Estates that BC Hydro needs to install 4
new submarine cables across Okanagan Lake (one being a spare), what a hoot (no pun intended)!!!
At minus 20 degrees out and freezing this last Christmas 2008, BC Hydro couldn't
get the power back on at Westshore Estates due to grow ops is what one resident
tried to suggest LOL! Wouldn't
it be more likely that BC Hydro's reclosers are old oil filled ones like BC Hydro
said at the meeting, and that they are not as good as these new ones being
ordered since the outage, as shown in the letter by BC Hydro below? And
that maybe BC Hydro had been planning these upgrades all along but were a little
slow in actually performing the upgrades, also shown in the letter below.
And that BC Hydro was already planning on taking 25% of the load off before the
3 day power outage occurred. Was BC Hydro's plan to take 25% of the load
off enough to consider that almost 25% of this power upgrade was due to grow
ops? That would be considered 1/4 of the power fed to the whole North
Westside Road area LOL!!! We would hope that people are not that gullible to believe that every 4th
property could be considered a grow op? Doesn't that seem a little far
fetched to you? We hope by posting BC Hydro's letter below it will put anyone's
mind at ease, if they are worried about all the dangerous grow ups that could be
living next to them. Could you really believe that Westshore Estates or even the
North Westside Road area is either stealing power or growing dope enough to make
up 25% of the entire distribution line (feeder) load as shown in BC Hydro's
letter below as a planned upgrade?
This letter from BC
Hydro says that BC Hydro is scheduling four submarine cables to be installed in
2010, to provide additional capacity and back-up support across Okanagan Lake to
Westside Road.
This letter from BC Hydro below was available
at the
BC Hydro meeting held at Killiney Beach Feb 12, 2009
By the way, at the meeting,
BC Hydro said that the
submarine cables have already been purchased by BC Hydro, and are already here
ready to be installed.
This letter was available at the Killiney Beach Hall meeting held Feb 12, 2009
This document was available for pickup at the BC Hydro meeting
held at Killiney Beach Hall Feb. 12, 2009 and has contact info for the
Westshore Residents Committee
Terasen Gas and BC Hydro want 2010 security upgrades
Updated: Wed Feb. 11 2009 - ctvbc.ca
Lately, we've been talking a lot about Olympic security -- but here
in British Columbia, we're going to be hit with previously unknown
2010 Olympic security costs...and they're going to be put directly
in the public's mailboxes.
This week, the RCMP and military have been conducting a pre-Olympic
security exercise. We still don't know how much all this security
will cost, but now, there's a new, hidden security cost that you've
probably never thought of -- the gas and electricity lines.
Terasen gas says it will spend nearly $4 million to protect B.C.'s
natural gas lines, including those that fuel the Olympic
facilities."
This comes in the wake of recent bombings to Encana gas lines in
Northeastern B.C. For terrorists, these are prime targets with the
power to endanger lives and disrupt world events.
And it's not just gas lines needing protection.
BC Hydro says it
needs $7 million to ensure secure delivery of power during the
Olympics.
So who will pay for security on the B.C. utilities?
"That means taxpayers are on the hook for that. So that's another
cost," said Carole James, leader of the NDP, addressing the
legislature on Wednesday.
"How many in a long list of costs has this minister and this
government not come clean on? Taxpayers are concerned," said her
colleague, NDP energy critic John Horgan. "When [Finance Minister
Colin Hansen] finally comes clean and tells us the honest cost of
security, will it include costs to Terasen Tas, costs to BC Hydro,
cost to TransLink? Will he be honest? What's the bill?"
This was the first time the Terasen issue was raised in the
legislature, but the minister in charge of the Games was caught off
guard.
"I think the question was will BC Gas customers pay more for the
Olympic games, and I have no idea what he means by that question,"
said Hansen.
Regardless of the precise amounts, taxpayers -- and now utility rate
payers -- are on the hook.
When the world goes back home, the bills will start rolling in. In
2011, Terasen has permission to put a surcharge on all gas bills for
two years.
At BC Hydro, no decisions have been made yet, and as for how much
this going to cost the average customer, those details haven't been
worked out either.
With a report by CTV British Columbia's Jim Beatty. |
More details coming on outage
Vernon Morning Star - News - Published: February
05, 2009
North Westside Road residents left in the cold during a prolonged
power outage will be getting more details on the incident.
Just before Christmas, electricity went out to all homes in the
North Westside area, but some of the 200 residences in the
Westshores subdivision didn’t have the service restored for 36
hours.
A public meeting with B.C. Hydro and the B.C. Transmission
Corporation will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Killiney Beach
Community Hall.
“B.C. Hydro asked if the residents of the area could provide
comments, suggestions and questions prior to the meeting so it can
prepare relevant information on what Hydro is doing and is planning
to do,” said Jim Edgson, Central Okanagan Regional District
director.
“Representative residents of the area were phoned and e-mailed with
this request and asked to fan out the request so the questions could
be forwarded by me to B.C. Hydro. The response has been
overwhelming, both I and B.C. Hydro are very grateful.”
Initial delays in restoring power occurred because Hydro crews had
to access equipment in a remote area between Vernon and Lake
Country.
However, matters were complicated when the system kept crashing
every time it was re-energized. It’s believed that heaters, lights
and other devices left on in residences were placing too much
pressure on the system.
So B.C. Hydro employees were left visiting individual homes to
ensure breakers were shut off. |
Prolonged electrical outage upsets residents
By Richard Rolke - Vernon Morning Star
- Published: December 23, 2008
Some North Westside
residents are demanding to know why they were left in the bitter
cold for 36 hours.
Electricity — the only source of heat for many homes — went out
to all of the North Westside Road area at 10 a.m. Saturday, but some
of the 200 residences in the Westshores subdivision didn’t get power
until 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
“To be out that long is unacceptable. It was brutal,” said resident
Shane Watson, who eventually travelled into Vernon to purchase a
generator and heaters for $700.
“I didn’t know how long it (electricity) would be off.”
Like other residents, Doreen Landry was forced to shut her water
off.
“I didn’t want the pipes to freeze,” said Landry, who did everything
possible to keep warm until electricity was returned to her home at
1:30 p.m. Sunday.
“I warmed up the vehicle and went in there for awhile. I also put on
lots of clothes.”
Temperatures varied over the weekend, but it was at least minus 30
at one point. Besides dropping temperatures inside houses, there
were reports of hot tubs freezing up and one resident losing about
200 fish in an aquarium.
“There are some very upset people. Some only heat with electricity,”
said Jim Edgson, North Westside’s area director.
Emergency services were also placed in jeopardy.
“I lost all of my water systems at one point Saturday. All of the
water systems are dependent on electricity,” said Wayne Carson,
North Westside Fire Department chief.
Electricity was restored to much of the North Westside by Saturday
evening, so Edgson questions why there was such a significant
problem at Westshores.
“Why would it take 46 hours to get everything back up? Why just
Westshores?” he said.
Edgson wants the Central Okanagan Regional District to seek answers
from B.C. Hydro.
“I want to see how this can be avoided in the future,” he said.
CORD’s emergency social services established a warming centre at the
Killiney Beach Community Hall Sunday for residents. But no one
showed up, and Edgson believes that’s because of the anxiety among
the public.
“People just didn’t want to leave their homes,” he said.
But in some cases, residents went to stay with relatives or booked
motels in Vernon.
The situation on the North Westside began as part of a transmission
line failure that also impacted most of Lake Country Saturday.
There were initial delays as the Hydro crews had to access equipment
in a remote area between Vernon and Lake Country.
“The crews had to walk in because of the snow,” said Gene Bryant,
public affairs co-ordinator.
But difficulties ensued when Hydro crews tried to bring the
electrical system back on line.
“Every time we tried to re-energize the system, it went out again,”
said Bryant.
It’s believed that heaters, lights and other devices left on in
residences were placing too much pressure on the system. So B.C.
Hydro employees were left visiting individual homes to ensure
breakers were shut off.
“The North Westside firefighters went door-to-door with the Hydro
crews and did a fantastic job,” said Bryant.
“It was literally a house to house situation.”
By 10:30 p.m., the last home at Westshores had its electricity
restored.
The power outage on the weekend also disrupted phone service to
1,300 Telus customers in Lake Country and the North Westside
Saturday.
“Telus service went to backup battery due to commercial power
outages in each community., and the batteries ran out of power as
the electrical outages became extended,” said Shawn Hall, with Telus
media relations, in a press release. |
Westshore Estates power outage the weekend before Christmas 2008 when it was
minus 25 and the coldest day so far winter 2008!
RDCO nor Harold Reay knew about the power outage, the water outage and the
emergency water phone number not in service. We were without power for 31 1/2
hours and without water for 50 hours. Gil Matak looks after the water up here
and should be given an award for the time and effort he put in to get the water
running again, he worked all Sunday night and when Monday morning came he had a
huge mobile generator brought in and hooked up, this proved successful.
It will
remain until BC Hydro can come up with enough power to run the pumps. Mr. Reay
has agreed to meet with the Ratepayers and Dan Plamondon in the new year to to
try and find a solution to the problem.
The phones didn't work at Estamont Beach while the power was off there from 10AM
- 7PM either. When we called from Valley of the Sun a friend at Estamont the line was busy and
the friend said later that their phone wasn't working for a couple of hours.
No power, no water; were Westside Road folk ’abandoned’?
Kelowna Daily Courier - By J.P. Squire - Tuesday,
December 23, 2008
A war of words over the role of the Central Okanagan regional
district broke out Monday after 200 residents of north Westside Road
went up to 36 hours without power and
50 hours without water.
“When you call in to the regional district and they don‘t even
know about it, yet we‘re dealing with it the entire weekend, we feel
abandoned, more or less,” Allistair Fergusson ,with the North
Westside Ratepayers Association, said on Monday.
Jim Edgson, who represents the Central Okanagan West electoral
area, suggested Fergusson phone neighbours to see if anyone needed
help. A ’comfort‘ station was opened at the Killiney Beach
fire hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, but “not one single person showed
up,” said Edgson.
Full-time fire Chief Wayne Carson, who received about 100
cell phone calls over the weekend, said most simply wanted to know
when the power and water would be restored. He said he made it clear
to everyone he had an emergency generator, water and food at
Killiney Beach fire hall “but nobody would leave their home.”
If enough people had come looking for emergency shelter, he would
have opened the nearby community hall which is connected to the
firehall‘s electrical system, he said.
The power to Lake Country and the Westside went out at 9:55 a.m.
Saturday after a transmission line came down in a remote area
southeast of Vernon.
B.C. Hydro had power back on in Lake Country late Saturday, but a
submarine cable under Okanagan Lake supplies 700-800 north Westside
residents. The last Westside customer had power restored at 10:33
p.m. Sunday, said Gene Bryant, B.C. Hydro spokesman. Crews
tried unsuccessfully to re-energize the system dozens of times, but
ended up restoring power house by house, he said.
Carson said a single grow-op can require the power of 15 houses,
and he suspects a couple overloaded the system as crews tried to
turn on 10-15 houses at a time.
Complicating matters further, the regional district‘s emergency
phone line was inadvertently turned off by Telus over the weekend as
the district re-organizes its phone lines, said administrator Harold
Reay. The emergency line is now back in operation.
Fergusson said the water supply wasn‘t restored until an
emergency generator was brought in Monday and he wants a meeting in
January with everyone involved so it doesn‘t happen again.
The regional district could buy an emergency generator for the water
pump house, but it would be expensive, said Reay, and it will be up
to residents whether they want to pay for it.
B.C. Hydro officials also told Fergusson they may take Carrs Landing
off the same grid as Westside to avoid a repeat. His area has lost
power two or three times in the last two or three months, he said,
and each lasted 12-18 hours.
Jason Brolund, deputy emergency program co-ordinator and
assistant fire chief at the Kelowna Fire Department, said those
caught in an emergency must be prepared to sustain themselves with
food, water and other supplies for up to 72 hours. “In the meantime,
if we can help them out quicker than that, that‘s what we will
definitely try to do,” he said.
Edgson suggested Fergusson is “more than welcome” to join the
emergency program team which, meets at the Killiney Beach fire hall
on the third Wednesday of the month. |
Brutal time on Westside Road
Kelowna Daily Courier - J.P. SQUIRE - 2008-12-22
About 200 B.C. Hydro customers on Westside Road were still without
power on Sunday, more than 24 hours after the lights and heat went
off.
On Sunday morning, local firefighters were going door-to-door asking
customers to turn off their heat and appliances, then the power to
that house was turned back on, said B.C. Hydro spokesman Gene
Bryant.
At the height of the outage on Saturday, 700-800 customers at the
north end of Westside Road were affected.
The initial cause just before 10 a.m. Saturday was a power outage in
Lake Country where a submarine cable across Okanagan Lake provides
power to the Westside.
B.C. Hydro initially thought the problem was at a Lake Country
substation affecting more than 5,000 customers at its peak. But when
nothing was found wrong at the substation, the outage was traced to
a conductor coming off a main transmission line in the mountains
just south of Vernon.
“It was in a remote location so the crews had to walk in. It was
pretty bad conditions (Saturday) so it took them a couple of hours,”
Bryant said.
“That slowed things down a little bit, then we had what we call
cold-load pickup issues.”
That‘s why B.C. Hydro asks customers to turn off their electric heat
and appliances, and just leave a couple of lights or a radio on to
alert them when power has been restored, he said.
“Essentially, going door-to-door is a very long, laborious process,
but that way when we bring the system back on, it can stabilize
itself.
“The system can‘t go from zero to 60 or something else is going to
go wrong,” Bryant said.
“That‘s essentially the problem we have on Westside Road,
significant cold-load pickup issues.”
That portion of Westside Road is a long, rural circuit far from the
substation, so customers were asked to restrict their usage and then
slowly turn heat and appliances back on over the next hour or two,
he said.
“We‘ve had contractor crews there all night long and a number of
B.C. Hydro crews were dispatched there (Sunday) morning because they
are only allowed to work 16 hours for safety reasons.”
Some Westside residents left their homes despite a heavy snowfall to
spend the night with friends and relatives, he said.
“It‘s pretty brutal out there for those poor folks on Westside Road,
the customers without power, but also brutal for the guys trying to
fix it.
“People have been pretty good ,but we‘re still experiencing some
difficulties. It‘s a slow go, but we‘re hopeful that we can get
those folks on today (Sunday).
“The fire chief and the firefighters over there have been awesome,
assisting in looking after people, making sure people are safe and
getting the message out to customers so we can stabilize the
system.,” Bryant said. |
Should you have any ideas how BC Hydro can improve their communication with
customers during
an outage please forward your suggestions to:
Jeanette Hoft
Community Relations Manager
email: jeanette.hoft "at" bchydro.com
Gene Bryant
Public Affairs Coordinator
email: gene.bryant "at" bchydro.com
Source page 16 of the March 2009 North Westside Communities News
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[ Boucherie Road ] [ Kaleden ] [ Kelowna ] [ Naramata ] [ Oyama ] [ Peachland ] [ Pentiction ] [ Summerland ] [ Vernon ] [ West Kelowna ] [ Westside Road ] [ Winfield ]
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