COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater Board of Public Utilities has announced the completion of a third redundant transmission line into the community’s electrical system.
The CBPU partnered with ITC Transmission Company over the last four years in an effort to improve electric reliability in Coldwater.
The transmission upgrades started with the announcement of the Clemens Food Group locating their newest facility in Branch County in late 2015.
Coldwater previously had two transmission feeds coming into the city, but on the same structures.
B.P.U. Direction Jeff Budd says, “This presented some risk to our industrial customers. We wanted to provide more redundancy that would reduce the risk for all of our industrial and residential customers that
depend on reliable power,”
The project brought new substations and transmission lines to the City of Coldwater along with Coldwater, Girard, and Union Townships.
It was done in two phases. Phase one consisted of constructing a new electrical substation located off Jonesville Road that connects to the existing Michigan Avenue substation via a three-mile, 138kV, single-circuit transmission line.
Phase two of the project consisted of a new ITC substation in Union Township that connects both the existing Verona – Batavia 138kV transmission line and the Jonesville substation via a new 138kV single-circuit transmission line.
The final piece of construction, the Butters substation, will be wrapping up this month, essentially completing the project.
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