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Proposed Heartland Transmission Project
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The Heartland Transmission Project Team (EPCOR and AltaLink) has selected the East TUC (Transportation/Utility Corridor) Route as the preferred route and the West Route as the alternate for its 500-kV transmission project.
Field evaluations and extensive public consultation efforts have revealed that these routes present the least overall impact based on seven factors: visual impact, environment, residences, agriculture, cost, electrical consideration and special constraints.
These routes will be included in a Facility Application to be filed in the spring with the Alberta Utilities Commission, which will make the final decision on routing and whether any part of the line will go underground.
The Heartland Team will also include a stakeholder-requested underground option in its Facility Application if the Alberta Electric System Operator, through its underground study, determines that underground transmission is technically feasible for this project. The underground option could consist of a 20-km section of buried transmission line within the East TUC, and 45 km of a 500-kV double circuit overhead line.
Phase II of the Heartland Team's public consultation efforts will begin and open houses are scheduled for the third week in January.
The Routes and How They Were Chosen
The Heartland Team has selected preferred and alternate transmission line routes. To view a map of the preferred and alternate transmission line routes, please refer to the Heartland Project’s January 2010 Newsletter.
Preferred: East TUC Route. Approximately half of this route uses the Transportation/Utility Corridor (TUC) on the east side of Edmonton, then travels generally northeast to the Heartland region.
Alternate: West Route. This route passes to the east of Spruce Grove, to the west and north of Morinville, then east to the Heartland region.
The Heartland Team received extensive feedback from stakeholders through nearly 3,000 one-on-one consultations plus discussions at open houses, information centres, as well as presentations to stakeholder groups. Comments were also received through hundreds of e-mails, letters, and phone calls.
Please refer to the Heartland Project’s January 2010 Newsletter for more information on timelines and the AUC process.
Contact Information
E-mail: PublicConsultation@heartlandtransmission.ca
Phone: (780) 441-7192 (local) | 1-888-441-7192 (toll free)
Heartland Transmission Project
P.O. Box No. 1547
Edmonton, AB
T5J 2T6
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