and now regularly provides high-voltage
services to solar and wind farms. A recent
project was with Northland Power’s Co-
chrane Solar Farm, 30 MW ground-mount-
ed photovoltaic solar project in the town
of Cochrane, Ontario. A current wind gen-
eration project is a 107 km 230 kV trans-
mission line and interconnection station
for the HIW LP 300 MW wind farm with
Pattern Energy and Henvey Inlet FN for the
Henvey Inlet Wind Project. “We have con-
nected hundreds of megawatts of renew-
able energy and PowerTel will continue to
connect thousands more,” says MacKin-
non.
“We have another sister company called
EPTCON. They also have done a fair num-
ber of solar projects and wind projects and
in addition to the construction work, they
also manufacture the electrical equipment
such as combiner boxes, inverter buildings
and the E-houses. Between PowerTel and
EPTCON, we have the expertise to suc-
cessfully deliver multiple concurrent en-
ergy projects,” says MacKinnon.
“I believe part of our success has come from being very diversified,” says Rakib.
“We provide services to the large utilities, but small companies as well.”
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