Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for the Bonneville Power Administration/Puget Power Northwest Washington Transmission Project

Zusammenfassung

BPA and Puget Sound Power & Light Company (Puget Power) have decided to upgrade the existing high-voltage transmission system in the Whatcom and Skagit Counties area of the State of Washington, between the towns of Custer and Sedro Woolley, including some areas 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 transmission capacity on a nearby U.S.-Canada 500-kV intertie by about 850 megawatts (MW). BPA and Puget Power would share equally in the 850 MW of increased transfer capacity. Construction is scheduled to begin late in 1995 and continue through the fall of 1997 when the new facilities would be energized.