ATCO subsidiary Canadian Utilities Restricted plans to construct a brand new pure fuel pipeline that goals to spice up the power infrastructure of Alberta.
The Yellowhead Mainline undertaking will increase the capability and improve the effectivity of the province’s pure fuel community, connecting pure fuel producers to key markets and delivering the power required for Alberta’s rising inhabitants, ATCO stated in a information launch.
The undertaking consists of constructing roughly 124.3 miles (200 kilometers) of high-pressure pure fuel pipeline and associated management and compression amenities that can run from Friends, Alberta, to the northeast Edmonton space. It can help power, petrochemical, constructing supplies and hydrogen initiatives that use pure fuel and carbon seize know-how, together with the Dow Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero undertaking, ATCO famous.
ATCO stated the overall funding for the undertaking is anticipated to exceed $1.46 billion (CAD 2 billion), with extra exact price estimations topic to additional refinement of undertaking scope, route and detailed engineering.
The growth is anticipated to have the aptitude to ship about 1,000 terajoules, or 1 billion cubic toes, per day of incremental pure fuel supply capability, based on the discharge. ATCO expects the undertaking to be operational within the fourth quarter of 2027, with building anticipated to start in 2026, topic to regulatory and firm approvals.
“As Alberta’s power demand continues to develop, the Yellowhead Mainline will play an important function in reinforcing Alberta’s power infrastructure and enhancing entry to dependable power from one of many cleanest sources of pure fuel on the planet,” Wayne Stensby, ATCO Vitality Methods COO, stated. “Canadian Utilities has been delivering protected, dependable and reasonably priced power for greater than 100 years and we’re excited to embark on this new landmark infrastructure undertaking which we count on to contribute to a affluent future for Albertans within the many years to come back”.
“Dow appreciates the partnership with ATCO to provide Dow’s Path2Zero undertaking. Collectively these initiatives could have a profound optimistic impression on communities, creating jobs and financial alternative for Alberta,” Diego Ordonez, Dow Canada President, stated. “Collaboration with authorities officers, the neighborhood of Fort Saskatchewan, our Indigenous neighbors, and the host of accomplice corporations equivalent to ATCO have been key to enabling Dow’s funding to maneuver ahead”.
In November 2023, international supplies science agency Dow Inc made a ultimate funding determination on its $6.5 billion Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero undertaking, which goals to construct the world’s first net-zero scope 1 and a couple of emissions built-in ethylene cracker and derivatives facility in Alberta, Canada.
The undertaking contains constructing a brand new ethylene cracker and rising polyethylene capability by 2 million metric tons each year in addition to retrofitting the positioning’s current cracker to net-zero scope 1 and a couple of emissions, Dow stated in an earlier information launch.
Canadian Utilities, an ATCO firm, is a diversified international power infrastructure company delivering important providers and modern enterprise options. ATCO Vitality Methods describes itself as an organization that delivers power for an evolving world by its electrical energy and pure fuel transmission and distribution, and worldwide operations segments.
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