hydro replaceing aging and not so aging poles File photo KDG
A transformer is replaced on Quilchena Saturday morning BC Hydro
Auger on Voght Photo KDG
New nest on live hydro pole no good for authorities!
Enhancing the image of the city photo KDG
Voght street Office of a local mine benifiting from new Hydro infrastructure. File Photo KDG
Pole installation and work on Voght street Merritt. File photo KDG Photo KDG
Hydro people reading for a line burial on Voght File photo KDG
A Hydro worker turns on power again on Voght street. File photo KDG
Leaf has direct connection to 500 volt quick charger in Merritt. Photo KDG
Hydro showing their online consumption tracking. File photo KDG
Hydro worker on atruck

The old substation off Voght is demonstrably going away with equipment on site removing the obsolete decades old transformers and structures. The new one was opened last fall and can be remotely operated from the Fraser Valley with a dish aimed at the towers on Iron Mountain.
The project occurred in the same time frame as the third 500 KV line to the Lower Mainland from the Revel stoke dam area.
The Merritt substation project includes an upgrade of a 61 KV line to the highland Valley and its biggest consumer the giant Teck, Highland Valley copper mine. The upgrade is to a 138 KV line coming from the Merritt Green Energy Project a 40 KV wood over steam electric generator that will burn green wood waste from three local mills. Sources say that the contractor is hoping to turn the keys over to the operator next year possibly March. The Merritt Green Energy Project is licensed by BC Hydro and uses public transmission lines.
The project created a lot of jobs including many members of the local First nations bands. It also generated ongoing relationships with band governments.
The lines for the green energy project are a this moment in progress to the Green Energy project including a crossing by the Osprey nest on Highway 8 coming into Merritt from the west. The ospreys returned to a cleaned off nesting platform this spring but rebuilt it in the shadow of ropes and new poles going up around them.

On this Day: May 24th 1626

Peter Minuit buys Manhattan for tools Wampum and other wares.