BC's North Coast Power Corp given go ahead to investigate Alaska Interconnection

TRANSMISSION LINE INVESTIGATED TO JOIN NW BC WITH SE ALASKA
Merv Ritchie - Terrace Daily Online

North Coast Power Corp has been given the go ahead by BC’s Integrated Land Management Bureau to investigate the Iskut River Valley for a grid interconnection to Alaska. The Northwest Transmission Line (NTL) is presently planned to extend to Bob Quinn Lake. North Coast Power will be investigating the route to join this new grid with a connection to the present grid in SE Alaska at Tyee Lake, which currently connects the communities of Petersburg, Wrangell and more recently, Ketchikan and now Metlakatla with a submarine cable.

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