PORT ANGELES — A company proposing a high-voltage power cable between Victoria and Port Angeles has received two more permits.
But the project’s anticipated completion date has moved from August 2009 to mid-2010, said Paul Manson, president of Sea Breeze Power Corp., one of the partners.
“It’s an 18-month manufacturing and construction cycle,” he said. “We still have to complete the design and financing.
“There’s indications there will be commercial contracts this year, but I don’t want to nail down dates yet.”
Sea Breeze Pacific Juan de Fuca Cable LP, a partnership that includes Sea Breeze Power Corp., wants to build a 550-megawatt high-voltage direct current light transmission cable to deliver wind-generated electricity from Vancouver Island to Port Angeles.
The cable would be built underneath the Strait of Juan de Fuca at an estimated cost of $750 million.
High voltage direct current light is a variation of high voltage direct current that is being used in cables already in the Strait.
