Bonneville Power Administration (BPS) and Puget Sound Power & Light (Puget Power) propose to upgrade the existing high-voltage transmission system in the Whatcom and Skagit County area between the towns of Custer and Sedro Woolley, including within the city of Bellingham starting in 1995. The upgrades of the interconnected 230,000 volt (230-kV) and 115-kV systems are needed to increase the reliability of the local transmission system and to increase the import capacity on a nearby US-Canada 500-kV intertie by about 850 megawatts (MW). The increase in north-south transfer capability would be shared by BPA and Puget Power (about 425 MW each). Other actions would include replacement of an existing BPA 230-kV single-circuit, wood-pole H-frame transmission line with a lattice-steel double-circuit line; an existing Puget Power 115-kV single wood-pole transmission line rebuild, two short 115-kV Puget Power lines added at BPA's Bellingham Substation; and improvements made at existing BPA and Puget Power substations.
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: BPA/Puget Power Northwest Washington Transmission Project
1993
381 pages
Report
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Environmental Impact Statements , Environmental Studies , Electric Power Transmission , Electric Power Production , Bonneville Power Administration , Overhead Power Transmission , Power Transmission Lines , Puget Sound , Modifications , Reliability , Environmental impact statement-Draft , EDB/240200 , EDB/240300 , EDB/296000 , EDB/540250