Sea Breeze: Vancouver Island Cable

Sea Breeze has filed its application with the BC Utilities Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) for a 550 MW HVDC Light cable system to Vancouver Island.

In order G-70-05, dated August 7, 2005, the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) said "If Sea Breeze files a CPCN Application and desires to have it reviewed in this proceeding, then Sea Breeze should file the CPCN Application ... no later than the end of September 2005. Participants should assume that information requests to Sea Breeze will be due on October 17, 2005, assuming Sea Breeze files either a CPCN Application or Intervenor Evidence."

Sea Breeze has asked that its VIC project be reveiwed in a process parallel to the review of the BCTC VITR project.

The cable would run underground from the Ingledow Substation in Surrey, along road routes to White Rock, across Georgia Strait on much the same route as the GSX Pipeline, to the tip of the Saanich Peninsula, then again underground down to the Pike Substation (where Sea Breeze's other cable, the Juan de Fuca Cable is also proposed to terminate.)

The full application is now on the project's website at www.vancouverislandcable.com. Happy reading.

Interesting times at the BCUC. Will BCTC blink?