BC Hydro 2025 Call for Power

BC Hydro seeks proposals for the supply of electrical energy qualifying as Clean or Renewable Resource from projects located in British Columbia. BC Hydro is seeking to acquire up to 5,000 GWh/year of clean energy to be delivered from new privately-owned energy resources. Projects must be newly constructed generation facilities or expansions to existing facilities, with minimum plant capacity of 40 MW and proven generation technologies with at least 3 operating plants in commercial use for 3+ years.

All projects must include a mandatory minimum 25% First Nations equity ownership requirement as an eligibility criterion. Proponents may receive evaluation credits for First Nations equity ownership exceeding 25% (up to 51%) and for First Nations community economic benefits agreements. The Canada Infrastructure Bank has indicated it will offer support to successful proponents through investment tax credit bridge loans and financing for First Nations equity participation.

Key dates include CEAP IR pre-submission deadline of September 2, 2025, CEAP IR submission date (with deposits) of October 2, 2025, and the RFP closing date for proposal submission of January 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. All proposals must be delivered electronically via BC Hydro's secure Sourcing Extranet. Projects must achieve commercial operation by October 1, 2033 and have direct or indirect access to a point of interconnection on the integrated BC Hydro system.

Proposals are evaluated based on conformity, eligibility requirements, quantitative evaluation using bid price adjustors, risk assessment, First Nations consultation adequacy, and additional considerations including interconnection impacts, environmental benefits, and overall cost to BC Hydro. Evaluation price adjustments account for network upgrade costs, capacity commitments, First Nations equity benefits, community economic benefits, resource integration costs, transmission line losses, and incremental firm transmission costs.