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Site C Clean Energy Project $16 billion
10 ReNew Canada
Construction and Environmental Ltd. (north bank site
preparation); Englobe (quality assurance services); Colliers
Project Leaders; AGAT Labs; Hanscomb (cost consultant);
Deloitte (risk advisor); HKA
Suppliers: Voith Hydro (turbine and generator); ATB Riva
Calzoni Hydro Canada Inc. (hydromechanical equipment);
Advanced Precast
Legal: Dentons Canada (owner’s counsel);
Borden Ladner Gervais (legal advisor); Bennett Jones
(acted for successful proponent)
Substantial Completion: 2025
Funding: Public
This hydroelectric earthfill dam on the Peace River includes
several components: an earthfill dam 1,050 metres long and
60 metres high, a 1,100-MW generating station and associated
structures, an 83-kilometre-long reservoir, realignment of six
sections of Highway 29, and two 77-kilometre transmission
lines along an existing transmission line right-of-way,
connecting Site C to the existing provincial power grid.
Once complete, Site C will provide 1,100 megawatts of
capacity, and produce about 5,100 gigawatt hours of energy per
year – enough to power the equivalent of 450,000 homes per
year in British Columbia.
Construction on the Site C project began in July 2015. Site
C is now more than 65 per cent complete and remains on
schedule to have to have all six generating units fully in-service
in 2025.
The Site C project hit peak construction in 2022, with more
than 5,000 people working on the project in the busier summer
months. Construction continues to advance on all aspects of
the project, including the earthfill dam, powerhouse, approach
channel and work to realign Highway 29. The final segment for
the last penstock unit was achieved in early July. The project’s
second and final 500-kilovolt, 75-kilometre transmission line
was completed and energized in March 2022.
In the coming year, work will continue on the earthfill dam
in preparation for reservoir filling, which could occur as early
as fall 2023.
BC Hydro
2022 Rank: 1
Location: Near Fort St. John, B.C.
Owner: BC Hydro
DB(F)OM Team (Site C accommodation lodge): ATCO Two Rivers Lodging Group—ATCO Structures & Logistics Ltd. and Bird
Design Build Construction Inc.
Contractor: Peace River Hydro Partners—ACCIONA Infrastructure Canada, and Samsung C&T Canada (main civil works
construction)
AFDE Partnership—Aecon, Dragados, Flatiron, EBC (spillways
civil works)
Allteck Line Contractors Inc. (transmission line, Site C to Peace
Canyon generating station)
F&M Installations Ltd. (substation construction, balance of
plant – electrical)
Mitchell Installations Ltd. (balance of plant – mechanical)
Engineer: Klohn Crippen Berger and SNC-Lavalin (engineering
and design - dam and reservoir); Tetra Tech; BGC Engineering;
WSP; R.F. Binnie & Associates; Lasalle | NHC (engineering
and design - other); Associated Engineering (owner’s team design); Wood-a WSP company (environmental)
Environmental Services: Golder-a WSP company (EA and
permitting, archaeology, agriculture, fisheries and aquatics,
socio economics); Pathfinder Endeavours Ltd.; Keystone
Wildlife Research Ltd.; McMillen; RWDI Air Inc.; Knight
Piésold; Industrial Forestry Service Ltd. (environmental and
regulatory work); Morrison Hershfield (project review for EA
authority); Hemmera
Other Key Players: AL Sims and Sons (road improvements);
Aon (risk advisor); BTY Group (cost consultant); Hatch
(environmental permitting); KPMG (lead commercial
advisor); McElhanney (engineer, materials testing,
environment, and survey); McMillen Jacobs Associates
(dam/tunnel analyses: design of tunnel support); Morgan
Construction and Environmental (north bank); Paul Paquette
& Son’s Contracting (south bank); Kasian Architecture
Interior Design and Planning Ltd.; WSP; ATCO Two Rivers
Lodging Group (worker accommodation lodge); Paul Paquette
and Son’s Contracting Ltd. (south bank clearing); Morgan
