Celilo Converter Station

The Celilo Converter Station, built in 1970 and owned and operated by the Bonneville Power Administration, is the northern terminus of the Pacific DC Intertie, near The Dalles, Oregon, in the United States.

The Celilo Converter Station was originally configured with six groups of six-pulse mercury arc valves with a blocking voltage of 133 kV each (for a total of ±400 kV) and a maximum current of 2,000 amperes.

[1][2] There was also a DC test facility for testing high voltage equipment nearby (now abandoned, soon to be demolished).

At the end of the 1960s, a test transmission line for 1,333 kV was erected at 45°28′58″N 120°48′51″W / 45.482792°N 120.814097°W / 45.482792; -120.814097 (1333 kV DC Line).

The facility was built to test the high voltage DC equipment[5] intended for a planned connection between Celilo Converter Station and Hoover Dam that never was built.