Summarize project facts
Record property, suite or strata context, current evidence, planned loads, selected option and utility-owned work assumptions.
Approval responsibility map
Verify Who Approves Each Part of the Work
Assign qualified contractor, TSBC permit and inspection, BC Hydro service, City or building, outage and closeout steps.
Decision file
Build a clearer project record
Verify contractor evidence
Use current Technical Safety BC requirements and legal names; keep a dated verification record tied to proposed scope.
Map TSBC permit and inspection
Ask who obtains the permit, inspections required, correction process and closeout documents.
Map BC Hydro responsibilities
Separate application, design, customer prerequisites, meter or service work, outage and scheduling.
Add City and building interfaces
Record suite, EV, fire separation, structural penetration, excavation, restoration and strata questions.
Maintain dependencies
Log source, date, project facts, answer, required document, responsible party and what must happen next.
Open three approval columns
Maintain separate columns for Technical Safety BC, BC Hydro and City or building decisions, each with project facts, responsible party, submission, prerequisite and response. This prevents a permit answer from being mistaken for utility approval.
- Use consistent project facts
- Log reference numbers
- Reopen after design change
Verify contractor and permit evidence
Record the proposing legal name against current TSBC information and define who obtains the electrical permit, arranges inspections, corrects deficiencies and supplies closeout. Keep the evidence tied to the accepted scope.
- Do not rely on logo claims
- Include subcontracted work
- Retain inspection results
Sequence the utility connection
Use current BC Hydro service-connection information to map application, design, customer work, readiness, outage, meter and energization steps. Confirm requirements and schedule for the actual address before ordering equipment or promising dates.
- Assign customer prerequisites
- Record utility design revisions
- Coordinate occupied-home outage
Close the three-column approval roadmap
Maintain distinct Technical Safety BC, BC Hydro and Surrey or building columns with identical project facts, current source, checked date, reference, responsible party, prerequisites and next action. Add contractor legal-name evidence, permit and inspection, utility application and design, customer readiness, outage, meter or energization and relevant strata or construction interfaces. Conditional answers remain open, and scope changes trigger recheck. The roadmap assigns process ownership without promising timing or approval and prevents one organization’s response from being applied to work controlled by another. Review the roadmap at every submission and readiness milestone, recording the document that actually closed each dependency. Preserve changed utility or authority instructions with their effective dates and affected drawing revision.
- Verify current TSBC evidence
- Log BC Hydro references
- Track customer prerequisites
- Separate City interfaces
- Archive completion documents
Primary references
Verify current rules at the source
Links checked in the approved research packet on August 26, 2026. Applicability still depends on the property and proposed scope.