Consultation for Rule 007 - Applications for Power Plants, Substations, Transmission Lines, Industrial System Designations and Hydro Developments

Consultation for Rule 007 - Applications for Power Plants, Substations, Transmission Lines and ISDs

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Last updated: July 30, 2019

Contact: wayne.mackenzie@auc.ab.ca or sophie.jiang@auc.ab.ca

July 30, 2019

The AUC, in conjunction with Alberta Environment and Parks and the Alberta Electric System Operator, will be holding a workshop in Calgary on September 17, 2019, to provide information about the regulatory process and application requirements for new power plants. Further details about the workshop are included in Bulletin 2019-13.

July 3, 2019

The AUC is initiating a review of Rule 007: Applications for Power Plants, Substations, Transmission Lines, Industrial System Designations and Hydro Developments. The goal of the review is to update and streamline existing requirements to make the application process more efficient for applicants, interveners and the AUC. Additional information about the review is included in Bulletin 2019-10 .

Bulletin 2019-09 outlines new information requirements including both solar glare assessments and shadow flicker assessments that will apply to all new wind and solar energy Rule 007 applications filed on or after October 1, 2019.

April 26, 2019

A comprehensive consultation process resulted in changes to Rule 012 and Rule 007. The changes were announced in Bulletin 2019-05 and the revised rules are effective on August 1, 2019. The matrix of changes and the blacklined version of the rule are available in the consultation documents below and on the Rule 012 consultation page.

March 22, 2018

The AUC approved changes to Rule 007: Applications for Power Plants, Substations, Transmission Lines, Industrial System Designations and Hydro Developments on March 21, 2018. The following documents are related to the release of the revised AUC Rule 007.

Documents

Name	Title	Submitter	Date	Document type	Year
2019-11-21-Rule007-StakeholderComments-GreenCatRenewables	Shadow flicker review comments	Green Cat Renewables	2019/11/21	Comments (stakeholder)	2019
2019-11-21-Rule007-StakeholderComments-Zehndorfer	Solar Glare and Glint Project review	Zehndorfer Engineering	2019/11/21	Comments (stakeholder)	2019
2019-11-14-Rule007-StakeholderComments-CanWEA	Shadow flicker review comments	CanWEA	2019/11/14	Comments (stakeholder)	2019
Bulletin 2019-13	Power plant application workshop	Alberta Utilities Commission	2019/07/30	Bulletin	2019
Bulletin 2019-09	Interim information requirements for solar and wind energy power plant applications	Alberta Utilities Commission	2019/07/03	Bulletin	2019
Bulletin 2019-10	AUC Rule 007 - Initiation of a review and stakeholder consultation process	Alberta Utilities Commission	2019/07/03	Bulletin	2019
2019-04-16-Rule007-Changes	Matrix of Rule 007 changes made in rule effective Aug. 1, 2019	Alberta Utilities Commission	2019/04/26	other	2019
2019-04-16-Rule007-Blackline	Rule 007 effective August 1, 2019 - blacklined version	Alberta Utilities Commission	2019/04/26	Rule (blacklined)	2019
2019-08-01-Rule007	Rule 007 effective August 1, 2019	Alberta Utilities Commission	2019/04/26	Rule (current)	2019
Bulletin 2018-12	Electric facility applications with major deficiencies will no longer be processed	Alberta Utilities Commission	2018/08/01	Bulletin	2018
2018-04-02-Rule007	Rule 007 effective April 2, 2018 to July 31, 2019	Alberta Utilities Commission	2018/03/22	Rule (issued)	2018
2018-04-02-Rule007-Blacklined	Rule 007 effective April 2, 2018 - blacklined version	Alberta Utilities Commission	2018/03/22	Rule (blacklined)	2018
Bulletin 2018-05	Amended Rule 007: Applications for Power Plants, Substations, Transmission Lines, Industrial System Designations and Hydro Developments	Alberta Utilities Commission	2018/03/22	Bulletin	2018
2017-06-21-Rule007-Blackline	June 2017 draft version of Rule 007	Alberta Utilities Commission	2017/06/21	Rule (blacklined)	2017
2017-07-04-Rule007	Rule 007 effective July 4, 2017 to April 1, 2018	Alberta Utilities Commission	2017/06/21	Rule (issued)	2017
2016-02-01-Rule007	Rule 007 effective February 1, 2016 to July 3, 2017	Alberta Utilities Commission	2016/02/01	Rule (issued)	2016
2016-01-29-Rule007BlacklineDraft	January 2016 draft version of Rule 007	Alberta Utilities Commission	2016/01/29	Rule (blacklined)	2016
2016-01-29-Rule007StakeholderComments	Stakeholder comments and AUC responses regarding changes to Rule 007	Alberta Utilities Commission	2016/01/29	Comments (responses)	2016
Bulletin 2016-02	Amendments to AUC Rule 007 respecting environmental updates and needs identification documents	Alberta Utilities Commission	2016/01/29	Bulletin	2016
2015-10-19-Rule007-Blackline-draft	October 2015 draft version of Rule 007	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/10/19	Rule (blacklined)	2015
Bulletin 2015-14	Draft amendments to AUC Rule 007 respecting environmental requirements and needs identification documents	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/10/19	Bulletin	2015
2015-09-14-Rule007-meeting	Environmental stakeholder consultation meeting minutes	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/09/14	Meeting summary or notes	2015
2015-09-01-Rule007FlowChart	Environmental guidelines for new substation construction or existing substation modification flow chart	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/09/01	other	2015
2015-08-27-Rule007StakeholderCommentMatrixEnvironmentalChecklist	Stakeholder comments and AUC responses for environmental guidelines checklist	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/08/27	Comments (responses)	2015
2015-08-27-Rule007StakeholderCommentMatrixRolesofAgencies	Stakeholder comments and AUC responses regarding the roles of agencies	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/08/27	Comments (responses)	2015
2015-08-27-Rule007StakeholderCommentMatrixRuleChanges	Stakeholder comments and AUC responses regarding Rule 007 changes	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/08/27	Comments (responses)	2015
2015-07-24-Rule007-Blackline-draft	July 2015 draft version of Rule 007	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/07/24	Rule (blacklined)	2015
2015-07-24-Rule007Blackline-draft	July 2015 draft version of Rule 007	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/07/24	Rule (blacklined)	2015
2015-07-24-Rule007-draft	July 2015 draft version of Rule 007 clean	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/07/24	Rule (draft)	2015
2015-07-24-Rule007-draft	July 2015 draft version of Rule 007	Alberta Utilities Commission	2015/07/24	Rule (draft)	2015

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