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Red Deer Area Transmission Development

Project overview

Red Deer and the surrounding areas have grown significantly in recent years and the demand for electricity has increased. Transmission system reinforcements are required to make sure homes, farms and businesses continue to have a reliable supply of electricity for years to come.

Project details

The proposed Red Deer Area Transmission Development is divided into four stages.

• Stage 1 – substation upgrades: upgrading six substations
• Stage 2 – transmission line rebuilds: rebuilding nearly 75 kilometres of existing transmission lines in the Red Deer and Sylvan Lake areas
• Stage 3 – new substations and transmission lines: building new substations near Ponoka, Innisfail and Didsbury; building approximately 50 kilometres of new transmission lines near the substations and east of Lacombe; and removing approximately 25 kilometres of existing transmission line from Red Deer to Innisfail
• Stage 4 – removing existing transmission lines: removing approximately 75 kilometres of transmission line from Wetaskiwin to Lacombe

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• Growth in the Red Deer area
• Strengthening central Alberta's aging electric system

Stage 3

February 2012

• Location correction letter: Ponoka
• Route identification presentation: Innisfail area
• Route identification presentation: Lacombe area  

January 2012

• Newsletter Volume 2
• Preferred and alternate map: Ponoka area
• Preferred and alternate map: Innisfail area 
• Preferred and alternate map: Lacombe area
• Map: Didsbury area
• Map: Transmission line removal

• Open house information panels - summer 2011
• Newsletter Volume 1  
• Alberta Electric System Operator's Red Deer Area Need Overview
• Map: Ponoka area 
• Map: Innisfail area 
• Map: Lacombe area 
• Map: Didsbury area 
• Map: Transmission line removal 

Ponoka Substation Upgrade

April 2012 

• Update letter
• Updated map

July 2011 

• Ponoka Substation Upgrade 
• Ponoka Substation Upgrade: AESO Need Overview

Stage 2

November 2011

• Newsletter Volume 2
• Map Volume 2: from Benalto Substation to Red Deer Substation 
• Map Volume 2: From North Red Deer Substation to Red Deer Substation 
• Map Volume 2: from Red Deer Substation to Joffre Substation  

June/July 2011

• Open house information panels - summer 2011
• Newsletter Volume 1 
• Updated summer open house information 
• Alberta Electric System Operator's Red Deer Area Need Overview
• Map Volume 1: from Benalto Substation to Red Deer Substation
• Map Volume 1: from North Red Deer Substation to Red Deer Substation 
• Map Volume 1: from Red Deer Substation to Joffre Substation 
• Piper Creek Substation - telecommunications tower upgrade 

Stage 1

November 2011

• Notice of application filing

April 2011

• Newsletter 
• Alberta Electric System Operator's Red Deer Area Need Overview
• Map: Red Deer North Substation 
• Map: Gaetz Substation 
• Map: Benalto Substation 
• Map: Joffre Substation 
• Map: Union Carbide Prentiss and Ellis Substations