A pole waits to be installed at the edge of the Extra foods parking lot,Merritt BC to bring co-gen power to the Highland valley. Photo KDG

A pole waits to be installed at the edge of the Extra foods parking lot,Merritt BC to bring co-gen power to the Highland valley.
Photo KDG

The electric power generating ability of water power in British Columbia is owned by a non profit Crown Corporation BC Hydro Power and Authority. The corporation also owns and operates the transmission grid in the province. Lower rates to the consumer is the mandate of this non profit and it has had good success going back decades to the 1950s.The corporation was mandated and performed well with dams and treaty functions like the Columbia River deal with the Americans.
Merritt is in the middle of a co generation green energy project that is licensed by them and uses the transmission lines the they operate and maintain.A wood waste burner is being built to take 130 KV of power to the Highland Valley from the plant through a revamped Merritt substation that also gets power from other hydro sources.

On this day: February 4rth 2004
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