Work will help prevent or minimize the
impact of outages for 1,500 FirstEnergy customers
AKRON,
Ohio, May 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- American
Transmission Systems, Inc. (ATSI), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy
Corp. (NYSE: FE), has installed approximately 250 new insulators
along a 22-mile section of a transmission line that runs through
Mahoning and Columbiana counties in northeast Ohio. The new equipment will help ensure the
electric grid remains reliable and resilient for approximately
1,500 Ohio Edison customers in the Mahoning Valley.
New horizontal post insulators were installed on the 69-kilovolt
transmission line, which runs southwest from a substation in
Boardman Township to a substation
in Salem. Insulators separate
high-voltage transmission lines from their grounded support towers
and help maintain the safe and consistent delivery of power. The
new insulators attach directly to the poles and eliminate the need
for crossarms, which were removed.
Work to replace the insulators began in August 2022 and was completed in March. Several
poles were also replaced as part of the $5
million project.
Carl Bridenbaugh,
FirstEnergy's Vice President of Transmission: "This new,
upgraded equipment will help prevent potential outages and ensure
that our transmission system continues to serve customers safely
and reliably in the future."
The project is part of Energize365, a multi-year grid
evolution program focused on transmission and distribution
investments that will deliver the power FirstEnergy's customers
depend on today while also meeting the challenges of tomorrow. With
planned investments of $26 billion
between 2024 and 2028, the program will create a smarter, more
secure grid that will meet and exceed reliability targets and
accommodate electric vehicles, the electrification of homes and
businesses and clean energy sources.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and
operational excellence. Its electric distribution companies form
one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems,
serving customers in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West
Virginia, Maryland and
New York. The company's
transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of
transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic
regions. Follow FirstEnergy online at www.firstenergycorp.com and
on X, formerly known as Twitter, @FirstEnergyCorp.
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