The Burrard Generating Station is 62 years old and, until it was decommissioned in 2016, served as a backup power source for B.C.'s hydroelectric grid during low water years.
BC Hydro has begun the long process of dismantling a power plant in Port Moody, but some are urging caution. Global's Angela Jung reports.
Since then it has been functioning much like a substation, converting high-voltage electricity from the hydro grid to a lower voltage for use in Metro Vancouver.What the site will be used for once the plant is dismantled hasn’t been decided yet, said BC Hydro spokesperson Kevin Aquino, with preliminary steps of what will likely be a multi-year process still underway.
“There’s a lot of possibilities, but I am really hoping we will have something there that would be related to clean energy development,” Port Moody-Coquitlam NDP MLA Rick Glumac said.sent to your email, as it happens.“We’ve been waiting for something like this,” she said.Lahti said when the plant was decommissioned in 2016, Port Moody lost close to four per cent of its tax base.
Barry Penner noted that B.C. remains in a multi-year drought, with growing concern about water levels in the hydroelectric dams that provide the vast majority of the province’s power.“It’s a pretty dramatic amount of electricity we are importing right now and we are doing that because we have had record low snowpack and the energy planners at BC Hydro are looking to the future for the rest of the year and you can’t count on big reservoir outflows,” Penner said.
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