Energy transition and environment
Supporting the energy transition
Supporting provincial climate action goals and helping our customers lower overall emissions requires:
- enabling and supportive government policies
- investing in energy efficiency, lower carbon energy,1 innovative technologies and infrastructure
- collaborating with academia and industry
- providing customers with timely and helpful energy use information to help them make cost-effective energy choices
Environmental and heritage resource management
Learn how we plan for, monitor and respond to potential environmental and heritage impacts of our projects. Also learn about our Safety and Environment Policy and Osprey Nest Management Program.
1FortisBC uses the term lower carbon energy to refer collectively to electricity and the lower carbon gases or fuels that the utility can produce, use and/or acquire under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation (“Regulation”). The Regulation identifies different sources of electricity and gas that are prescribed based on their feedstock and production processes. FortisBC’s lower carbon energy portfolio includes Renewable Natural Gas (also called “RNG”) and electricity. Other gases and fuels may be added to the portfolio over time. FortisBC’s lower carbon energy portfolio is lower carbon when compared to conventional natural gas.
2Renewable Natural Gas (also called “RNG”) is produced from biogas at dedicated RNG production facilities. Biogas is derived from decomposing organic waste at landfills or agricultural and other organic waste such as wastewater from treatment facilities. The biogas is captured, upgraded and processed to create RNG that is added to existing energy infrastructure. This means we’re unable to direct RNG to a specific customer. However, because RNG displaces conventional natural gas, the more RNG that is added to the gas system, the less conventional natural gas is used.
