North Arkansas Electric Cooperative (NAEC) has energized the Galatia Substation and transmission line in the Norfork area.
The substation is serving 750 member accounts on 85 miles of distribution line, that were previously served by the Norfork Substation. The project included a new 2.8-mile transmission line connecting the substation to a transmission line between the co-op’s Norfork and Pineville substations.
Additional distribution lines will be built out of Galatia substation in the future to divide the existing distribution system. The co-op’s operations and engineering employees constructed the substation for the past eight months, while contractors built the transmission line.
While the co-op maintains 5,120 miles of line across portions of eight counties, Galatia is its 30th substation.
“With the Norfork, Culp and Lone Rock areas having grown in recent years as far as load, this new substation gives us greater flexibility during normal operations and outage situations,” said NAEC CEO, Mel Coleman. “We also built the substation so that it has capacity for future growth.”
