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The federal government has announced its approval of the National Energy Board (NEB) de... sion to issue a certificate for the ITC Lake Erie Connector Project, a build that will include construction of a 117-kilometre underwater transmission line across Lake Erie.
The two-way, 1,000-megawatt, 320-kilovolt, high-voltage direct electric transmission line will transfer electricity between new HVDC converter stations located in Erie County, Pa. and Nanticoke, Ont. The project will include construction of facilities to transfer electricity from Nanticoke via a 500 kilovolt AC line to the Independent Electricity System Operator market in Ontario and to markets in the U.S. mid-Atlantic and Midwest from...