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Servicing

Power:

  1. General: Maritime Electric owns and operates two electrical generating facilities on Prince Edward Island. The Charlottetown Generating Station is located on the waterfront in Charlottetown and has 6 fossil fuel fired units with a combined capacity of 65,000 kilowatts. The Borden-Carleton station has 2 diesel fired combustion turbines with a capacity of 38,500 kilowatts.

    These stations are kept in a standby mode and put into operation only when energy supply from off-Island sources is interrupted. Most of the electrical energy supplied by Maritime Electric to customers on PEI is purchased from NB Power and comes to the Island via 2 submarine transmission cables under the Northumberland Strait. This electrical energy is distributed to customers on PEI along over 5,000 kilometres of power lines.

    At the Stratford Business Park, an aerial three-phase electrical supply is installed with low profile construction on steel poles. Secondary services must be installed underground from the poles to pad mounted transformers.
  2. Capacity and Availability: Maritime Electric advises that the transmission voltage capability available to the park is 69 kV . The nominal service voltages available at the park are:
    • 120/208 volt three phase
    • 347/600 volt three phase
    • 120/240 volt single phase.
  3. Rates:
    • Small Industrial Rate Schedule (effective October 1,1998):
      • Billing Demand: The greatest of:
        • The monthly maximum kW demand;
        • 90% of the monthly maximum kVA demand or
        • 5 kW
      • Demand Charge:
        • $5.25 per kW of billing demand per month
      • Energy Charge:
        • ¢ 10.12 per kWh for the first 100 kWh per kW of billing demand per month.
        • ¢ 4.75 per kWh for the balance of kWh per month.
  4. Constraints and Plans for Extension: There are no constraints on the available power supply in the business park and service will be extended by Maritime Electric as required.
Water:
  1. Source: The business park is serviced from a new central water system that was installed in 1999 and which includes a wellfield at pondisde park and distribution mains to the business park. Water supply will be available during power outages when the fire rated water supply project is complete in the late fall of 2000.
  2. Current Capacity: The current water capacity at the Stratford Business Park will be at least 1,000 gallons per minute to provide basic sprinkler service and domestic water services.
  3. Current Demand: There is currently no demand for water at the Stratford Business Park.
  4. Distribution System: Static pressures in the business park would range from 40 psi to 80 psi.
  5. Constraints and Plans for Extension: Since the Town of Stratford has only limited central water supply systems at present, an entirely new system has been installed including a new wellfield capable of supplying the required water volumes and a planned reservoir capable of supplying the required water volumes, minimum system pressure, fire storage and balancing storage.
Sewer:
  1. General: The Town of Stratford provides general sanitary sewer collection services to the Stratford Business Park. The first phase of the Business Park is serviced by gravity into the existing sewer on Mason Road.
  2. Collection System: The sewer lines in the park are 8" to 10" in diameter. Sewage flows through a gravity line system.
  3. Capacity and Demand: There is currently no demand for sewer services at the Stratford Business Park.
  4. Constraints and Plans for Extension: Recent upgrading to the Town's central sewage treatment facility should be sufficient to accommodate projected demands from the new business park. This does assume, however, that the park will be "dry" as recommended in the Official Plan.
Road:
  1. Existing Installation: The existing road servicing the Business Park consists of the Mason Road which bisects the park and meets the Trans-Canada Highway at a T' intersection. All roads in the business park will be constructed under the authority of Stratford Business Park Development Inc. All roads in the business park will be paved, and will be maintained by the Province of PEI.
  2. Constraints and Plans for Extension: Based on the findings of an earlier report prepared for the Town, the recommendation was also made to upgrade the intersection and approaches at the intersection of Mason Road and the new business park access road and Mason Road and the Trans-Canada Highway. Currently there are no constraints on extension of the existing road system to the park.

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