Electric Power

Dawes Substation

230 kV to 144 kV Station

Valard was awarded a complete greenfield build project including civil, structural, and electrical work. Dawes is the largest Substation in ATCO Electric’s system.

Client

ATCO Electric

Start Date

September 2014

End Date

June 2015

Highlights
  • 8 acre pad
  • Installed over 400 foundations
  • Installed hundreds of steel structures, supports and A-frames
  • Installed circuit breakers, disconnect switches, current transformers, surge arrestors, potential transformers
  • Pulled kilometers of cables
  • Terminated thousands of cable ends
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