Port Alma Wind Farm

- 2008 -

Location: Port Alma, Ontario

Client: Black & MacDonald

Transmission Line Voltage: 230kV

Transmission Line Length: 11.8 km

Structure Type: Wood Single Pole Stand-Off Insulator Design

# of Structures: N/A

Services provided:

  • Right-Of-Way Clearing
  • Engineering
  • Material Procurement
  • Transmission Line Construction
  • Right-Of-Way Restoration

100% Farmland Construction

Other Challenges:

  • Construction needed to avoid sensitive farming seasons
  • Municipal Ditches up to 15’ deep
  • Structure placement and design must allow for farm equipment to pass around and underneath Transmission Line
  • Multiple road crossings
  • Multiple local distribution crossings
  • Hard wind
  • Intense storms