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Hydro plans $200 million in upgrades for Vancouver (source: Vancouver Sun article)
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You know what's interesting. My wife's always saying she can't believe that the power goes out so often here.
She says that it's only during really strong typhoons that the power goes out in Japan ( in cities, at least ). I don't know if that's perception or reality, just interesting. |
BC Hydro Transmission, Vancouver City Central Transmission (VCCT) Project with construction updates
Dec 08 Open House PDF Feb 09 Open House PDF David Lam park will be used for about the next year... it's barely been reopened since the Olympics |
Thanks for posting.
It looks like it'll tie up most of the playing field at David Lam Park. |
Too late now, but I wonder if they could've piggybacked on the Canada Line construction and run the power thru the tunnel then. Seems like there many projects that could've gained from synergy but it rarely seems to happen.
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Given that Hydro hasn't done any upgrading in 30 years, and the huge population increase in the area in the meantime, they must have really overbuilt in the 70's!
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On the supply side, referring to the Cathedral Square substation because it is the somewhat renowned for being an underground substation with a park at ground level in an urban area:
So they always leave room to add more transformers or circuits, electricity demand is fairly predictable growing a little bit every year. Furthermore in some of the older substations that have been built out, retired equipment can be replaced to leave greater total capacity. I'm sure there has been a lot of ongoing work, just no single projects of this magnitude in the area. On the demand side: Well the downtown area has changed a lot in the intervening years. There used to be a lot of factories/mills that would have had huge demand compared to some of the office/residential that replaced them. Also offsetting any population/building increase could be improved efficiency or conservation (it used to be the norm to leave lights on at night in empty offices to show off the building, high efficiency computer controlled HVAC systems weren't around, ...) -- although that may be offset by increased numbers of gizmos and the use thereof. ~30 years between major projects in an area sounds desirable to me. Probably strikes a good balance between opportunity costs of the money, minimizing unknowns about the size/location of future demand, and the cost savings of building fewer larger projects. |
they just ran a story on global - some good video of the project
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I live on the Mt. Pleasant side, and it seems there hasn't been an outage here in years. |
In the overall sense power has been quite reliable over the past decade or two... although there has been a few highly-publicized blips (recent Vancouver South problems and the Downtown transformer explosions and failures from a few years back). I wonder if she's just thinking about those more than anything else... which is understandable, since almost everyone who lives here (including me) nowadays expect the power to be always on and ready for our everything we do.
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My guess is this new sub station will provide a more redundant back up for the area. Thus helping to prevent more black and brownouts for the area. You don't hear of many blackouts that happen in the City of Vancouver. Which is why when one or more do happen there is a major questioning going on by the public. That is why the blackouts that have happened recently were quite high profile. Hydro does have a lot of redundancy for its system in Vancouver. Which helps to prevent a lot of black outs. While if you look at a place like eastern Langley or Maple Ridge. They get far more black outs because of a less redundant system. So this upgrade is hydro realizing that there are problems that are starting to come up and its better to stop them now before it gets out of hand. |
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All the money that was spent by the government and BC Hydro at the time back in the 60's and 70's. Has been a major reason in why we haven't needed to really see any major upgrades. And also why we have had a cheap supply of power for so long. Its too bad they can't over build the transportation system like they did hydro power. :haha: |
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global did a report on the 1km cable snaking its way - someone needs to go get some pics looks neat
this is a shorter report - longer report not online yet http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/inde...o_g_7_WTuH5SSs |
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Can you say ClusterF*@^#%$k? I heard from a friend it took 45 minutes to go from Granville to Cambie - this wasn't during rush hour. Yesterday I saw someone cursing a blue streak that would've made a sailor blush, because she had to go from Laurel/Broadway all the way west to Hemlock to get north of the cables & then come back east to Laurel & 7th. The N-S streets from Willow west to Hemlock (maybe Granville too?) are closed to traffic (except local businesses and residents) while the cables are travelling along 8th Ave. Google maps shows a 1KM cable would run from Laurel to Granville. Lots of street closures this weekend. Getting around Fairview slopes north of Broadway is impossible, since the cables are too big to go under or over -- walking or driving. The pull under False Creek is supposed to be finished by Monday. BTW: This is a sneak preview of how drivers won't cope with Broadway closures to build a surface streetcar line or a Cut 'n' Cover tunnel. |
thx for the link ... cool stuff
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I noticed on my way by there tonight that Willow St appears to be open again, so I'm guessing that means 6th Ave and Charleson Rd are open again too, since the cables should now be stretched out along 8th Ave between Willow and Hemlock.
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