The Lake Erie Connector is a planned underwater electric transmission line that would run under

Lake Erie Lake Erie ( ) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest avera ...

to connect the

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s of the Canadian province of

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with the American state of

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. The

high-voltage direct current A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission system uses direct current (DC) for electric power transmission, in contrast with the more common alternating current (AC) transmission systems. Most HVDC links use voltages betwe ...

line will carry up to 1000 MW and run from

Nanticoke, Ontario Nanticoke is an unincorporated community and former city located on the western border of Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. Nanticoke is located directly across Lake Erie from the US city of Erie, Pennsylvania. Summary Unlike the majority of H ...

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. The connector is budgeted at US$1 billion. Energy planners first started to work on the project in 2004.

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