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The New JDF Cable Project

Linking the Pacific Northwest's two largest grids.

The Juan de Fuca Cable Project is a 600 MW clean-energy link between Port Angeles, Washington and Victoria, British Columbia — a cable buried beneath the Strait and underground on each shore, invisible once built. Privately financed at no cost to energy ratepayers or taxpayers, and built on a foundation the region spent eight years bringing to shovel-ready. Transmission the Pacific Northwest needs now more than ever.

Why it mattersAbout the project
Financing
Privately funded · No cost to ratepayers or taxpayers
Interconnect
Cross-border ring resilience
Endpoints
Port Angeles ↔ Victoria area
Victoria, BCPort Angeles, WASTRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCABase imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX (CC BY 4.0), restyled
Initial cross-border capacity
600 MW

Clean-energy capacity from first energization

Buried end-to-end
49 km

~35 km under the seabed · ~14 km underground on land

Horizontally drilled shore approach
~800 m

Cable emerges offshore — no open trench through the intertidal zone

30-year regional economic impact
$87.7B+

Idaho National Laboratory for PNWER

Three reasons it matters

A clean-energy link the region needs.

The Juan de Fuca Cable Project addresses the single largest constraint on the energy transition — transmission — with a project that has already cleared the regulatory hurdles that stop most greenfield infrastructure.

The transmission bottleneck

Every credible energy-transition analysis identifies transmission — not generation — as the binding constraint. The cable is a direct, ready-to-deploy answer for the Pacific Northwest.

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Proven, not speculative

The original design reached shovel-ready status by 2012 — DOE Presidential Permit, NEPA Final EIS, NEB approval, and interconnection specifications complete with both BPA and BCTC. The New JDF Cable Project builds directly on that de-risked regulatory foundation.

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Ecological and economic upside

Buried beneath the seabed and underground on land — with horizontally drilled shore approaches that skip the intertidal zone entirely — the cable has effectively no surface footprint. It enables clean-energy displacement of fossil generation on both sides of the border, and projects ~177,000 person-years of regional employment.

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Boundless Energy LLC

Finish what was started.

We're reviving a de-risked project that the Pacific Northwest spent eight years getting shovel-ready. We welcome conversations with investors, agencies, and partners who want to see it built.

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