PSE&G to Replace 1,300 Vehicles with Hybrids to Help Curb Carbon Emissions in New Jersey
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) unveiled plans to reduce its carbon emissions by more than 81,000 tons by replacing 1,300 vehicles with hybrids and making changes in other areas of its corporate fleet....
PacifiCorp to Construct Transmission Lines through West
PacifiCorp announced plans to build more than 1,200 miles of new 500-kV transmission lines originating in Wyoming and connecting into Utah, Idaho, Oregon and the desert southwest...
Russian Transmission Investment Progress Report
The North-West Transmission Grids, branch of OAO "UES FGC", brought on line a new 330-kV Novgorodskaya substation in the city of Veliky Novgorod, as reported in a progress report on the investment program by the RAO UES companies for May 2007. ...
Texas Variable Frequency Transformer Installation Dedicated
A new state-of-the-art Variable Frequency Transformer (VFT), a key component in a 138-kV electric interconnection between Laredo and Mexico was dedicated May 18, at the Laredo VFT substation. Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams made keynote remarks at the formal dedication. ...
Glendale Water & Power to Repair Transmission Line and Towers to Improve Reliability of Electrical System
Glendale Water & Power (GWP), Glendale, CA, has started repairs of a transmission line damaged during a severe lightning storm in 2005. Scheduled to be completed by November, the project to restore the transmission lin...
Idaho Power and PacifiCorp Anticipate Need for Major Transmission Development
Idaho Power announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with PacifiCorp under which the companies would pursue possible development of new high voltage transmission lines from Wyoming across southern Idaho. ...
PECO Reliability Enhancement Projects in Delaware County Should Benefit More Than 35,000 Local Customers
PECO will spend more than $17.2 million in service reliability projects this year that will benefit roughly 35,000 Delaware County customers. Across southeastern Pennsylvania, PECO will invest more than $254 million in system upgrades and capital improvements....
Westar Energy Receives Permission to Build New Transmission Line
Westar Energy, Inc. has received approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission to build a new 345 kV high-capacity transmission line from northwest of Wichita, KS, near its Gordon Evans Energy Center...
ComEd Submits Petition for Phase III of Northwest Reliability Project to Illinois Commerce Commission
Following a comprehensive 15-month study, ComEd submitted a petition for approval of Phase III of the Northwest Reliability Project to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC). ...
CL&P Prepares for Summer Peak Load with T&D Maintenance and Inspection Projects
The Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P) is in the final stages of a $30 million program to upgrade and strengthen its infrastructure across the state as the summer season – the time of greatest electricity consumption – approaches...
NPPD Energizes Final Transmission Line Segment
Nebraska Public Power District, Columbus, Neb, placed into service the last of 37 transmission line segments damaged, or destroyed, by the late December ice storm. This accomplishment comes six weeks ahead of the original reconstruction schedule. ...
Hydro One Installing 170 New Poles in Coleraine Road Widening Project
Hydro One, Ontario, Canada, staff from its Orangeville work center have begun a major $3.5 million project installing 170 new poles and 30 km of line to accommodate widening of Coleraine Road in Bolton. The project is a joint effort with the Town of Caledon to widen the thoroughfare between Mayfield Road to King Street...
Southern California Edison Auld-Moraga No. 2 Subtransmission Line Project Underway
Southern California Edison’s Auld-Moraga No. 2 Project will be 8.7 miles of new 115-kV line connecting the existing Auld Substation in Murrieta, CA with the existing Moraga Substation in Temecula, CA...
Dominion Virginia Power Files Application to Build Transmission Lines In Southeastern Virginia
Dominion Virginia Power has applied to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) for permission to build two transmission lines — a 500 kV line and an associated 230 kV line — in southeastern Virginia to meet the increasing demand for electricity in Hampton Roads....
Con Edison Details $1.4 Billion in Electric Delivery Investments
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) has invested $1.4 billion in its electric delivery infrastructure preparing for this summer, and has established several new emergency response and communications programs....
NSTAR Energizes Major Underground Transmission Line
NSTAR has officially flipped the switch on its massive underground transmission project, easing congestion in the regional power grid and adding much-needed capacity to the existing system...
Progress Report on Implementation of RAO UES Investment Program
RAO "UES of Russia" has released a progress report on the implementation of the Investment Program by the RAO UES energy companies in April 2007 that includes 500-kV switchgear and transformer installations. ...
Alliant Energy WindConnect Constructs 230kV Transmission Line for FPL Energy Wind Turbines in Eastern Colorado
A 100-mile 230-kV transmission line under construction in northeast Colorado will connect the FPL Energy Peetz Table 400 MW wind turbines in Peetz, Colorado to the western grid at the Pawnee substation in Brush, Colorado. Two line segments make up this line: 78.2 miles being built by ...
National Grid Continues To Make Progress in the Tri Lakes Area
National Grid is taking another step to improve electricity service to the Tri Lakes region in New York State (Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake) with the installation of new equipment at the Trudeau Road ...
IES Subsidiary IES-ESE to Provide an Oil and Gas Field in the Russian North With Power Supply Facilities
IES-EnergoStroyEngineering (IES-ESE, part of the Integrated Energy Systems) is implementing a project to provide Urmansk-Archinsk oil and gas fields in the northern part of the Russian Tomsk region with power supply facilities. ...
Detroit Edison to Interrupt Electrical Service to Grosse Ile Customers Early Sunday to Complete Reliability Improvement Work
Detroit Edison plans to interrupt electric service to all Grosse Ile customers on April 29 between 1 and 7 a.m. so company technicians can complete work to add a third transformer to the island's electrical distribution system. Power will be interrupted for all customers at the same time and power will be restored for all customers at the same time. ...
CL&P Upgrades Distribution System for Meriden, Connecticut
As part of its ongoing efforts to improve its electrical distribution system throughout Connecticut, The Connecticut Light and Power Co. (CL&P) is upgrading the system in downtown Meriden. CL&P will invest $4 million over the next two years to reconfigure and strengthen the circuits that serve the downtown area. ...
Transmission Line Upgrade Will Expand Capacity and Improve Reliability
Otter Tail Power Co. announced that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a Certificate of Need and a Route Permit for its 115-kV transmission line between Appleton, Minnesota, and Canby, Minnesota. “Getting such timely approval from the Minnesota Public ...
Sargent & Lundy Lands Horizon Wind Energy Contract to Interconnect Wind Farm to Grid
Sargent & Lundy LLC has signed a contract with Horizon Wind Energy to provide engineering services for interconnection of Phase 2 of the Twin Groves Wind Farm to the grid. Sargent & Lundy also provided the engineering services for grid interconnection of Phase I....
AEP and Allegheny to Form Joint Venture to Build 765-kV Transmission in PJM
American Electric Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Allegheny Energy Inc. to form a joint venture company to build and own new electric transmission assets within PJM Interconnection (PJM)....
