It’s not difficult to find examples of transmission-planning projects gone awry. From Southern California to Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, electric utilities face heavy opposition to their plans to boost transmission capacity.More unusual is the experience of Hartford, Conn.-based Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P), which—with its minority partner, New Haven, Conn.-based United Illuminating—currently is halfway through a 69-mile, $1.1 billion effort to install a 345-kV transmission line through 18 Connecticut communities. This article originally ran in Electrical Contractor magazine, March 2008.
A Transmission-Line Plan That’s Actually Getting Built
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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