Power Line Review About to Begin | CFTKTV
The B-C Transmission Corporation has formally submitted the Northwest Transmission Line project for environmental review.
B-C's Environmental Assessment office now has 30 days to decide whether the application meets the criteria for a review. If it does, it'll be made public, triggering the 180-day review period.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Hydroworld - BC answers call for power
Canadian News
Canadian News
BC Hydro advances 36 hydro projects in Clean Power Call
BC Hydro announced a total of 47 British Columbia renewable energy projects, including 36 hydro projects, remain under consideration for power purchases under its 2008 Clean Power Call.
In November 2009, the provincial utility said it would begin discussions with the developers of 13 proposed hydroelectric and wind power projects that it identified as the most cost-effective. Additionally, BC Hydro will offer developers of the other 34 projects the opportunity to make their proposals more cost-effective.
By technology, the remaining projects are 36 hydro, 10 wind, and one waste heat project. more
Canadian News
BC Hydro advances 36 hydro projects in Clean Power Call
BC Hydro announced a total of 47 British Columbia renewable energy projects, including 36 hydro projects, remain under consideration for power purchases under its 2008 Clean Power Call.
In November 2009, the provincial utility said it would begin discussions with the developers of 13 proposed hydroelectric and wind power projects that it identified as the most cost-effective. Additionally, BC Hydro will offer developers of the other 34 projects the opportunity to make their proposals more cost-effective.
By technology, the remaining projects are 36 hydro, 10 wind, and one waste heat project. more
Thursday, January 14, 2010
CBC News - North - Hydro expansion will be 'rate neutral': Yukon Energy
CBC News - North - Hydro expansion will be 'rate neutral': Yukon Energy
Yukon Energy Corp. says customers won't pay a cent for millions of dollars in anticipated environmental benefits from its Mayo B hydroelectric expansion project.
The public utility's $160-million plan to build a new power plant and a connecting power line, still needs regulatory approvals from the Yukon Utilities Board, Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board, and the Yukon Water Board.
The power plant itself will cost $120 million, while another $40 million will be spent on building the Carmacks-Stewart transmission line, which will connect Yukon Energy's Mayo-Dawson hydro grid to the Whitehorse grid.
Yukon Energy Corp. says customers won't pay a cent for millions of dollars in anticipated environmental benefits from its Mayo B hydroelectric expansion project.
The public utility's $160-million plan to build a new power plant and a connecting power line, still needs regulatory approvals from the Yukon Utilities Board, Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board, and the Yukon Water Board.
The power plant itself will cost $120 million, while another $40 million will be spent on building the Carmacks-Stewart transmission line, which will connect Yukon Energy's Mayo-Dawson hydro grid to the Whitehorse grid.
B.C. power line plans have Alaskans buzzing - Jan 13, 2010 Vancouver Sun
B.C. power line plans have Alaskans buzzing
British Columbia's plan for a $400-million high voltage power line into the northwest has Alaskans buzzing about the project's potential to spark green power development in their state.
Southeast Alaska has more than 3,000 megawatts of potential electricity generation at 80-plus sites, including hydro, wind and tidal power.
But with a population of 70,000 people scattered across a 650-kilometre area, the geographically isolated southeast market is too small to absorb even a fraction of that electricity. It's not economical unless it can be exported.
The northwest line would give Alaska access, for purposes of electricity sales, to the entire western North America electricity market.
British Columbia's plan for a $400-million high voltage power line into the northwest has Alaskans buzzing about the project's potential to spark green power development in their state.
Southeast Alaska has more than 3,000 megawatts of potential electricity generation at 80-plus sites, including hydro, wind and tidal power.
But with a population of 70,000 people scattered across a 650-kilometre area, the geographically isolated southeast market is too small to absorb even a fraction of that electricity. It's not economical unless it can be exported.
The northwest line would give Alaska access, for purposes of electricity sales, to the entire western North America electricity market.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Ketchikan supplements with diesel generation KRBD - Ketchikan
KRBD - Public Radio in Ketchikan, Alaska - Local News
Deanna Garrison
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA (2010-01-07) Beginning Friday, Ketchikan Public Utilities will start operating diesel generators at a cost of $36,000 a day. KPU says a surge in electricity usage and dry weather last year is causing the utility to rely on costly diesel power.
Deanna Garrison
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA (2010-01-07) Beginning Friday, Ketchikan Public Utilities will start operating diesel generators at a cost of $36,000 a day. KPU says a surge in electricity usage and dry weather last year is causing the utility to rely on costly diesel power.
Friday, January 8, 2010
CBC News - North - Too costly to hook up to northern B.C. power line: Yukon Energy
CBC News - North - Too costly to hook up to northern B.C. power line: Yukon Energy
Officials with Yukon Energy Corp. are keenly watching plans in the works for a hydroelectricity power line in neighbouring northern British Columbia, but say there's little chance the territory can capitalize on the emerging project.
On Friday, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell announced $10 million will go toward finalizing plans to build the Northwest Transmission Line, which will run 335 kilometres along Highway 37 from Terrace to Meziadin Junction and north to Bob Quinn Lake.
The line will link northern B.C. to the North American electricity grid — something Yukon Energy would like get to closer to, but officials say is not likely to happen.
"I think it would still be out of reach, or out of the question, to think that we could go from the Yukon down to Bob Quinn Lake," Yukon Energy spokeswoman Janet Patterson told CBC News on Friday.
Officials with Yukon Energy Corp. are keenly watching plans in the works for a hydroelectricity power line in neighbouring northern British Columbia, but say there's little chance the territory can capitalize on the emerging project.
On Friday, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell announced $10 million will go toward finalizing plans to build the Northwest Transmission Line, which will run 335 kilometres along Highway 37 from Terrace to Meziadin Junction and north to Bob Quinn Lake.
The line will link northern B.C. to the North American electricity grid — something Yukon Energy would like get to closer to, but officials say is not likely to happen.
"I think it would still be out of reach, or out of the question, to think that we could go from the Yukon down to Bob Quinn Lake," Yukon Energy spokeswoman Janet Patterson told CBC News on Friday.
Friday, January 1, 2010
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