Jump to content

Eastern Alberta Transmission Line

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 70.75.154.200 (talk) at 04:33, 10 August 2015 (added content). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Eastern Alberta Transmission Line is a 485 km long, 500 kV, bipolar, high-voltage direct current, overhead transmission line interconnecting Newell HVDC static inverter plant near Brooks, Alberta with Heathfield static inverter plant near Gibbons, Alberta - northeast of Edmonton.[1] The transmission line includes 1387 transmission towers and the construction of the 500kV DC transmission line is completed since december 2014 at a total cost of C$1.8 billion. Work continues on the EATL converter stations. [2] The project is the first newly built, long-distance, HVDC line in Canada since the completion of the Quebec – New England Transmission Project, and is owned by ATCO Electric, being built by Siemens. See also Western Alberta Transmission Line (WATL).

References

  1. ^ "Project Details". ATCO Electric. 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  2. ^ "Eastern Alberta Transmission Line". ATCO Electric. 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
Stub icon

This article about electric power is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Alberta_Transmission_Line&oldid=675367602"