FortisBC is trying to modernize a century-old energy system without making reliability or affordability the collateral damage. The playbook is unusually practical: blend cleaner fuels, fund many small experiments, partner early and let regulators kill the ideas that cannot yet carry their cost.
It started as a Richmond streetcar company in 1909. Today Dominion Energy runs power plants, gas lines and a 176-turbine wind farm 27 miles out to sea - and the fastest-growing customers on its grid are warehouses full of servers.