Central Ferry Substation Project
Garfield County, Washington

• PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

  
  BPA has been asked by Puget Sound Energy Inc. (PSE) to interconnect up to 1250 megawatts of electricity generated from PSE's proposed Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project in Garfield and Columbia counties, Washington to the Federal Columbia River Transmission System. PSE proposes to independently build, own, and operate the Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project and its associated facilities. A final Environmental Impact Statement that addressed impacts of the entire project was released by Garfield County on October 7, 2009. Garfield County approved the Conditional Use Permit on November 25, 2009.
  
  BPA will construct a new 500/230 kilovolt (kV) substation, called Central Ferry Substation, along its two existing Little Goose -Lower Granite 500-kV transmission lines to provide interconnection for PSE's Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project. The substation would be located adjacent to the existing transmission line rights-of-way.
  
  

• CURRENT STATUS:

  
  BPA has issued a tiered Record of Decision (ROD) under the Business Plan Environmental Impact Statement, approving the interconnection request, including new transmission facilities to begin construction in spring 2010.
  
  

• CONTACT:

  
  For further information on this project, please contact Tish Eaton, BPA Environmental Lead.
  

• DOCUMENTS:

  
  ROD Public Letter (28Kb pdf) (01/29/10)
  Record of Decision (173Kb pdf) (01/28/10)
  Updated Project Vicinity Map (138Kb pdf) (01/28/10)
  Public Letter (32Kb pdf) (10/16/09)
  Comment Form (35Kb pdf) (10/16/09
  Project Vicinity Map (146Kb pdf) (10/06/09)