The Guardian - Prince Edward Island is actively engaged in talks to plug into a blockbuster power deal set to be announced today that will see Lower Churchill hydroelectric power pumped into Nova Scotia.
Energy Minister Richard Brown spent much of Wednesday on the phone with his Newfoundland counterpart before boarding a plane to Ottawa to push forward P.E.I.’s proposal for another power cable to New Brunswick.
Anonymous said... "Study the technology and the costs. Not feasible to bring to the coast."
Not faesible to bring it to NL either - that's why we're giving N.S. free energy if they build their own link.
With finite generation and transmission capacity, where's the profit going to come from?
No profit? Ahhh yes, a "strategic" investment" - so we can follow with another "strategic investment" if we decideto develop Gull Island, followed by a third (you guessed it - strategic investment") if we are going to re-direct some of the Churchill Falls power when the contract runs out.
All this strategy is very expensive. What's the pay-back? I can't take pride to the bank to pay my mortgage.
"Amazing how the laws of physics vary from province to province."
Labrador-Island Link tranmission method is dc transmission, not ac transmission. Completely different than in Quebec. Again, read up on the technology!
Anonymous 8:30 pm said: Labrador-Island Link tranmission method is dc transmission, not ac transmission. Completely different than in Quebec. Again, read up on the technology!
Maybe you should read up on the details of the route. The transmission link from the dam to the coast is proposed to be AC - and converted to DC to transmit across the strait. There is no technology based rational for distributing some of the power to other parts of Labrador including the coast. It's all a moot point, the proposed project is going nowhere. It is uneconomical at the proposed scale, there is no financial benefit to NL electricity users, and there are too many details to overcome. What's the last think that Moores, Tobin, and Grimes did before exiting from Provincial politics? You guessed it - announced a Lower Churchill "deal". By-bye Dan. While he hasn't been productive or a good steward of the public purse, he certainly has been entertaining. Enjoy the sunshine and the best health care that money can buy - in Florida.
Labrador-Island Link tranmission method is dc transmission, not ac transmission. Completely different than in Quebec. Again, read up on the technology!
The local transmission lines on the north shore and in the James Bay communities... what are they? AC or DC?
"The transmission link from the dam to the coast is proposed to be AC - and converted to DC to transmit across the strait. There is no technology based rational for distributing some of the power to other parts of Labrador including the coast."
Completely wrong. Try re-reading the project description in the EA Registration Document.
"The local transmission lines on the north shore and in the James Bay communities... what are they? AC or DC?"
dc is only feasible for long distance transmission of power due to the cost of the equipment used to convert from one to the other. Over long distances the cost of conversion becomes feasible due to the reduction of lost power over the lines in terms of waste energy (heat, noise, etc)
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Maybe Labrador should apply to get some power from the Lower Churchill.
I find it astonishing that good social democrats have nothing to say about this perverse neo-colonialist state of affairs.
I hope the coast gets hydro from this development as well.
Talky Dunderhead has already made it clear they won't.
Study the technology and the costs. Not feasible to bring to the coast.
Study the technology and the costs. Not feasible to bring to the coast.
And yet, somehow, isolated communities throughout northern Quebec's hydro belt have hydro power.
Amazing how the laws of physics vary from province to province.
Anonymous said...
"Study the technology and the costs. Not feasible to bring to the coast."
Not faesible to bring it to NL either - that's why we're giving N.S. free energy if they build their own link.
With finite generation and transmission capacity, where's the profit going to come from?
No profit? Ahhh yes, a "strategic" investment" - so we can follow with another "strategic investment" if we decideto develop Gull Island, followed by a third (you guessed it - strategic investment") if we are going to re-direct some of the Churchill Falls power when the contract runs out.
All this strategy is very expensive. What's the pay-back? I can't take pride to the bank to pay my mortgage.
"Amazing how the laws of physics vary from province to province."
Labrador-Island Link tranmission method is dc transmission, not ac transmission. Completely different than in Quebec. Again, read up on the technology!
Anonymous 8:30 pm said: Labrador-Island Link tranmission method is dc transmission, not ac transmission. Completely different than in Quebec. Again, read up on the technology!
Maybe you should read up on the details of the route. The transmission link from the dam to the coast is proposed to be AC - and converted to DC to transmit across the strait. There is no technology based rational for distributing some of the power to other parts of Labrador including the coast.
It's all a moot point, the proposed project is going nowhere. It is uneconomical at the proposed scale, there is no financial benefit to NL electricity users, and there are too many details to overcome.
What's the last think that Moores, Tobin, and Grimes did before exiting from Provincial politics? You guessed it - announced a Lower Churchill "deal".
By-bye Dan. While he hasn't been productive or a good steward of the public purse, he certainly has been entertaining.
Enjoy the sunshine and the best health care that money can buy - in Florida.
Labrador-Island Link tranmission method is dc transmission, not ac transmission. Completely different than in Quebec. Again, read up on the technology!
The local transmission lines on the north shore and in the James Bay communities... what are they? AC or DC?
"The transmission link from the dam to the coast is proposed to be AC - and converted to DC to transmit across the strait. There is no technology based rational for distributing some of the power to other parts of Labrador including the coast."
Completely wrong. Try re-reading the project description in the EA Registration Document.
"The local transmission lines on the north shore and in the James Bay communities... what are they? AC or DC?"
dc is only feasible for long distance transmission of power due to the cost of the equipment used to convert from one to the other. Over long distances the cost of conversion becomes feasible due to the reduction of lost power over the lines in terms of waste energy (heat, noise, etc)
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