Energy Plan - Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

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The Lower Churchill and Newfoundland and Labrador’s other renewable energy assets provide a unique investment opportunity for Canada. Our electricity resources are significant enough to fulfill the needs of our province and provide a competitive, long-term, clean, reliable source of electricity at a reasonable price to the rest of the country and parts of the United States. In any event, Newfoundland and Labrador will choose destination markets and make infrastructure choices based on the best option, or combination of options, for this province. We recognize that developing long-distance inter-jurisdictional transmission is a complex process that must address many factors and mitigate numerous risks. Nevertheless, NLH is well-advanced in this process with respect to Lower Churchill and on schedule to present the Provincial Government with the opportunity to sanction the project in 2009. Our export focus will be on achieving direct access to both long and shorter-term customers in a number of markets, including Ontario, New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, P.E.I., New England and New York. Achieving direct access is necessary to ensure we: a. Secure a fair share of the economic upside potential of developments over the long term. b. Position ourselves properly for realizing the long term value of the Upper Churchill development. Two export routes are being investigated and pursued: 1. An overland route through the Province of Quebec, using Hydro- Quebec’s Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) process into New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New England and New York. 2. A subsea route from the Island into the Maritimes or Northeast United States, building on the transmission link from Labrador to the Island. This type of link would be similar in nature to subsea links currently in existence around the world. For example, the NorNed link between Norway and the Netherlands is a 700 MW capacity line stretching 580 km subsea, as compared to an 800 MW line between Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick, a distance of 425 km. 44
Figure 4.6 Potential Export Routes POLICY ACTIONS Transmission for Export The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador will: • Work to establish appropriate transmission access to Canadian and U.S. national electricity grids. • Work with other governments and industry to establish an effective national electricity transmission system. Canadian OATTs were mostly implemented in response to the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requirement that electricity companies making use of open access provisions in the United States, such as Hydro-Quebec, must provide reciprocal access on their own systems and those of all affiliates. Within Canada, there is no national regulatory agency that can require or enforce inter-provincial transmission access. The National Energy Board could do this, as it does with oil and gas pipelines, but only if specifically allowed by the Federal Government. To date, this has not occurred. The United States has made great strides towards creating a national grid system, which allows the sharing of power supplies among all areas. The continued absence of an effective inter-provincial electricity transmission system in Canada, 45
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