I can speak to the part Emera is involved with. We're part of the interconnection between ourselves and Newfoundland called the maritime link, that is a 500-megawatt underwater interconnection. The cost of that is $1.55 billion Canadian and we expect to energize that line at the end of this year, so effectively on time, on budget for that interconnection.
Nalcor has said that the Muskrat Falls is going to be coming on line in late 2019 through to 2020. At that point, there will also be the flow of renewable energy coming back from that generation facility at that point in time.
The interesting thing is that just the connection alone is going to be valuable. When you connect Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, all of a sudden there's a much more secure grid. We look forward to working very closely with Newfoundland in balancing our energy portfolio. Nova Scotia has nearly 600 megawatts of wind in a small energy grid that's just over 2,000 megawatts at peak in the winter. Being very close to islanded now—there is an interconnection to New Brunswick—I would say that is quite a learning experience on the system. We have reached what we believe is the threshold for our current system on the amount of intermittent wind we can have in Nova Scotia.
I think there was a question earlier from yourself, which was how much can you have on the grid? It's very grid-dependent, so it all depends on the number of interconnections, and how much are the resources you have in your jurisdiction, and that very much determines how far you can go. So in Nova Scotia we believe it's 600 megawatts of wind. That wind in the run of a week will go below 10% of its output twice a week, so you have to be ready for that. Then it will go to full load quite often as well. You have to have a solution for every moment of every day around that.
The intertie with Newfoundland is going to allow us to work very closely together to use their hydro systems and our wind systems collaboratively to bring value to customers in Newfoundland and Labrador and in Nova Scotia. That's going to be the first phase of value and that's before the generating station comes online.