Site C damとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Site C dam (or "Site C Clean Energy Project")is a proposal by the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (BC Hydro) for a large-scale earth fill hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. A cost estimate produced during the 2007 feasibility study placed the financial cost at a maximum of C$6.6 billion based on the 1980 design, safety, and engineering standards. Designs call for an estimated capacity of approximately 900 MW and an annual output of 4,600 GWh of electricity. If built, it would be the third of three major dams on the Peace River that were initially proposed in the mid-twentieth century. The first project, dubbed "Site A", is the flagship W. A. C. Bennett Dam 19 kilometres west of Hudson's Hope. That facility was completed in 1967 and began operation in 1968. Construction of "Site B", the Peace Canyon Dam, was completed in 1980 at a point 23 km downstream of the W. A. C. Bennett dam. The third dam - "Site C" - was also proposed at the time for a site 83 km downriver of the Peace Canyon dam, or approximately 7 km southwest of Fort St. John. The initial proposal was never completed, however, and was again rejected in 1989. It has since come under review as BC Hydro reconsiders expansion of its dam capacity on the Peace.