Enbridge Inc. completed the purchase from EDF EN Canada Inc. of a 50 per cent undivided interest in the 300 MW Lac Alfred wind project. The project, which will entail investments of approximately $700,000,000 by both co-owners, is located 400 kilometers north east of Québec City in Québec's Bas-Saint-Laurent region and will consist of 150 wind turbines supplied by REpower Systems SE. Construction is slated to take place in two phases: Phase 1, which began in June 2011, is expected to be completed in December 2012, while Phase 2 is expected to be completed in December 2013.
EDF EN Canada Development Inc. will lead and manage the construction phase under a fixed price, turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement. EDF EN Canada Inc.'s operation and maintenance affiliate, enXco Service Canada Inc., will provide long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the project. Hydro-Québec will buy the power under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) and construct the 30-kilometer transmission line to connect the project to the grid under an interconnection agreement.
Enbridge and its subsidiaries were represented internally by Waqar Zaidi, Ray Dean, Debra Poon, Scott Dodd and Ayaz Khokhar, assisted by McCarthy Tétrault LLP with a team led by Marc Dorion which included Kim Thomassin, Mathieu Laflamme, Louis-Nicolas Boulanger and Mathieu Leblanc (corporate); Anastassia Chtaneva (construction); Doug Ewens and Lindsay Hollinger (tax); Philippe Fortier (securities); Danielle Drolet, Annie Gagnon-Larocque and Marie-Pier Gosselin (real estate); Dominique Amyot-Bilodeau (environmental); Thom Isaac and Marc-Alexandre Hudon (Aboriginal) and Madeleine Renaud (competition).
EDF EN Canada Inc. and its affiliates were represented internally by Tristan Grimbert, Marc McClean and Julie Chabot, assisted by Stikeman Elliot LLP with a team led by Erik Richer La Flèche which included Maxime Turcotte, Maxime Jacquin and Olivier Boulva (corporate); Jean-Guillaume Shooner (tax) and Jeff Brown (competition). Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP also represented EDF EN Canada Inc. with a team led by Mylany David and Charles Côté-Lépine (environmental and real estate).
