B.C.’s Gitga’at First Nation ready for its wholly-owned hydro facility – Electric Autonomy Canada
Dec 10, 2024
By 2026 Gitga’at First Nation hopes to build a new hydroelectric facility that will power, among other things, its electric fleet
A new kind of energy is coursing through the Hartley Bay area — one that its 130 in-community members hope will last for decades to come.
The Gitga’at First Nation’s main community in Hartley Bay on the coast of British Columbia is breaking ground on a new wholly Indigenous-owned 900-kilowatt hydroelectric facility.
The project is expected to go into operation in October 2026 and meet 95 per cent of the community’s electricity needs for 40 years.
Located roughly 630km north of Vancouver and 145km south of Prince Rupert, Hartley Bay is accessible only by air or water. It gets its power from diesel fuel generators (along with 43 other remote communities in B.C.) but, in 2003, it conceived of a plan to build a small storage run-of-lake hydroelectric facility.
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