This project was initiated due to load growth in the town of Battleford. If operations required the entire town’s power generation to be supplied from North Battleford across the river, the capacity of the existing line was insufficient. The project scope involved upgrading 3.4 km of the existing line to 336 kcmil Tulip. It also addressed several key challenges along the route:

• Connecting to a substation constrained on three sides by twin highways and railway tracks
• Crossing an environmentally and archaeologically sensitive area
• Integrating with a concurrent project to build a switchyard for the entire city
• Collaborating with the City of North Battleford’s civil engineering department. They planned to connect a significant energy load to the new line.
• Avoiding the paralleling of 138 kV lines. This would create a scenario requiring outages on both lines for maintenance crews to work safely.
• Routing the line through rolling hills and a patchwork of land that was surveyed before Saskatchewan joined Confederation
• Designing alternative feeds to minimize customer outages during construction