City’s new substation application with AUC up for public comment

By Medicine Hat News on January 16, 2025.

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A plan to build a substation to serve southwest Medicine Hat is open for public comment by Alberta regulators.

The city’s electric distribution division has said the infrastructure and line upgrade is required to bring more stable flow to the area to accommodate growth and improve reliability city wide.

An application to the Alberta Utilities Commission was submitted last month, and this week the AUC advertised its public consultation process.

It is the second time in two years that city power planners have applied to build the substation, to be known as MHS-11, after regulators denied preferred and alternate locations in 2023 when Cypress County residents objected to the sites near Highway 3 at the city limits and near the county hamlet of Desert Blume.

The new preferred location sits north of Gershaw Drive on Range Road 63, one-half mile north of Township Road 122, and an alternate location is one-half mile east on the neighbouring quarter-section.

The AUC will receive comments from affected parties on the proceeding until Feb. 10. At that point the commission could order that a hearing be held to examine arguments, or, if none, proceed to a decision on the merits of the application.

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