The project, with the participation of Nlaka’pamux Nation member community Oregon Jack Creek, aims to build a 104 megawatt solar farm to deliver 216 gigawatt hours per year of electricity as part of B.C. Hydro’s 2024 call for power.
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The only solar-power facility included in B.C. Hydro’s 2024 call for power has taken a step toward regulatory approval, but it won’t be under the fast-tracked regulatory process being established by the provincial government.
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Logan B.C. Solar Project LP was one of 10 independent power proposals to be awarded power purchase contracts in December, 2024, as part of the call for power. The deals were all approved as being in the public interest by the B.C. Utilities Commission last August.
However, unlike the nine wind-power projects in the 2024 call, Logan B.C. Solar’s m.ah a temEEwuh proposal to be built on a 7.7 square kilometre site near Logan Lake will have to go through a full provincial environmental assessment.
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Under Bill 14, certain wind-power projects were exempted from full environmental review, because the technology has more history with the environmental assessment process.
This week, the partners in Logan B.C. Solar filed an initial project description with the Environmental Assessment Office for its proposed 104-megawatt solar-power facility. The office said it will look to streamline its review as a “key priority project,” according to a description on the agency’s website.
The project’s partners are Calgary-headquartered Blue Earth Renewables and the Oregon Jack Creek community, a member nation of the Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council.
No representative of either was made available for an interview Thursday because it is “too early in the process” to comment, but the initial description indicates they want to formally start the environmental assessment by September, aiming for an approval by early 2029 to fit in a construction window to start delivering power to B.C. Hydro starting in 2030.
The B.C. Energy Regulator did not respond to Postmedia questions in time for deadline, but the province has tasked the agency with developing the “one-window” framework to guide the assessment and regulation of priority clean energy projects under Bill 14.
Representatives from Clean Energy B.C., the industry group that represents independent power producers, also weren’t available for an interview Thursday, but a background statement noted it is in consultations with the B.C. Energy Regulator, along with First Nations rights holders and other community stakeholders.
In the meantime, the project description for the m.ah a temEEwuh Solar proposal submitted Thursday includes two phases, each one designed to deliver 104 megawatts of generating capacity. B.C. Hydro expects Phase 1 to provide up to 216 gigawatt hours of electricity a year, according to information on the utility’s website.
The partners note that a more detailed outline for m.ah a temEEwuh Solar’s Phase II will be included in a separate application to fit in with B.C. Hydro’s 2025 call for power.
In the Phase I project description, the partners indicate an intent to “share ownership of the project with other Nlaka’pamux and Secwépemc First Nation communities interested in partnering on the project.
Blue Earth and the Nlaka’pamux will be building on their experience from constructing a smaller, 15 megawatt solar farm, which is also near Logan Lake on land reclaimed from Teck Resources’ Highland Valley mine operations.
B.C. Hydro’s 2024 call for power is seeking some 5,000 gigawatt hours a year by 2030 to help fill an expected 15-per-cent increase in power demand in the province by then.
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