Micoua-Saguenay Transmission Project
Province: Quebec
City/Region: Côte-Nord to Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Image Credit: Hydro-Quebec
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Project Rank
Project Start: 2020
Project End: 2023
Project Type: Transmission
Industry Sector: Energy
Project Amount: $1 billion
Date of Completion: 2023
Funding Source: Public
Provincial Funding: $1 million
Transmission Line Length (KM): 262
Previous Rankings
| 2023 | 61 |
| 2022 | 59 |
| 2021 | 68 |
About The Project
The new 735-kilovolt transmission line will connect Hydro-Québec’s Micoua and Saguenay substations. The line will run roughly 262 kilometres through the Côte-Nord region (approx. 200 kilometres north of Quebec City) northwest through to the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. The new line will help strengthen the reliability of the transmission system in the province. The project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2023. The last contracts were awarded in 2021, all the deforestation of the 262-kilometre line was completed in 2021.
Project Owner: Hydro-Québec
Contractor: Groupe Conseil Nutshimit Nippour (Section 8 clearing operations); Midifor Inc. (Section 9 and 10 clearing operations)
Other Key Players: Englobe
Other Suppliers: Locweld (steel transmission towers)
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- Cartel Communication Systems
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- DECAST Ltd.
- DIALOG
- EBC Inc.
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- GeoVerra
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- Infrata
- Kasian
- Lakeland Consulting Inc.
- Lavery, de Billy
- LRI Engineering
- McMillan LLP
- Montrose Environmental
- Mott MacDonald
- Mulvey & Banani
- NORR Architects & Engineers Ltd.
- Osler
- Parkin Architects Ltd.
- Plenary Americas
- R.V. Anderson
- STRABAG Inc.
- Tiree
- Torys

