PORT ANGELES – A Canadian high-voltage power line to be sunk in the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Victoria and here now isn’t scheduled to be operational until August 2009.
The Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce heard an update on the three-year-old project at its regular Monday luncheon at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant.
Rod Lenfest, senior vice president of business development for Sea Breeze Pacific Corp. – the British Columbia company seeking to lay the cable and tie in its win-generated electricity with the Bonneville Power Administration system in Port Angeles – said the power could flow in both directions across the Strait.
That would strengthen power grids on both Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula, he said.
Sea Breeze Pacific Juan de Fuca Cable LP, a partnership that includes Sea Breeze Power Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia, has proposed the 550-megawatt high-voltage direct current light transmission cable at an estimated cost of $300 million U.S.
High voltage direct current light is a variation of high voltage direct current used in cables already in the Strait.
