The Montana-Alberta Tie Line power transmission line will be commissioned in early September.
“Some of the final testing was completed this past Saturday morning, where they demonstrated that we have a clean connection from Lethbridge to Great Falls,” said Scott Dodd, senior project director with Enbridge, on Monday. “The final commissioning has to wait approximately two weeks.”
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EDMONTON – City councillors approved a move to save the historic Rossdale power plant Monday, but still haven’t decided how much money to spend on fixing the structure.
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Surging wholesale electricity prices should shock Albertans into abandoning regulated-rate options for a more stable contract deal with a power provider, warns the province’s former consumer advocate.
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Bob and Margaret Stevenson weren’t happy this week to learn that AltaLink had stuck to its plan to build a power line across from their West Park home.
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EDMONTON – A group working to save the former Rossdale power plant hopes the building has a better chance of survival after making the Top 10 list of Canada’s most threatened historic sites.
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An estimated $20 million power substation and transmission line will be built in order to stay ahead of anticipated growth in northeast Red Deer.
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Medicine Hat isn’t about to change its moniker from the Gas City to Solar City anytime soon but the official groundbreaking of a first-of-its-kind renewable energy project may be a step in that direction.
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A Calgary-based company, BowMont Capital & Advisory, held an open house in Peace River last week for a proposed power generation facility, which would be located 26 kilometres north-east of the town.
The project, which would be known as the Whitetail Peaking Station, includes a two-kilometre gas pipeline that would provide natural gas from TransCanada’s NGTL system to fuel the station and four natural gas powered turbines (made by General Electric).
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EDMONTON – Every now and then someone in Edmonton has a brilliant idea, which brings me to Martin Kennedy, chairman of the Edmonton Historical Board.
Kennedy has a game-changing concept about what to do with the crumbling Rossdale Power Plant.
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EDMONTON – Edmonton-based Valard Construction, which has grown from a small family firm into one of Canada’s leading power-line builders, has landed the biggest contract in its history.
Valard was chosen by Atco Electric on Monday to build foundations and towers, and string cables for the $1.6-billion Eastern Alberta Transmission Line, a 485-kilometre, 500-kilovolt, direct current (DC) line between the Gibbons-Redwater region and an area west of Brooks.
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