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Hydro One Southern Georgian Bay grid upgrades strengthen power distribution with pole replacements, line stringing, and new transmission lines, boosting capacity and reliability for Collingwood, The Blue Mountains, Stayner, and ski resort developments.
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Upgrades boosting grid capacity and reliability for Collingwood, The Blue Mountains, Stayner, and Wasaga Beach.
- $8M distribution upgrades between Blue Mountain and Stayner
- Pole replacements and line stringing to modernize circuits
- 115 kV Barrie-Stayner line replaced with higher capacity towers
- New 44,000 V pole line planned for Wasaga Beach by 2011
- Reliability boosts for Collingwood, The Blue Mountains, and ski resorts
The lights might be staying on longer and more reliably thanks to Hydro One being wired.
“Hydro One is investing approximately $8 million in infrastructure improvements to its power distribution system between Blue Mountain and Stayner this fall, as part of its overall plan to increase capacity to the Southern Georgian Bay area,” the company stated in a media release. “Planned work involves pole replacement and line stringing. The project will benefit the towns of Collingwood and The Blue Mountains, and expand capacity for the entire region, including the area's ski hill developments.”
In recent years, the Georgian Triangle area has seen its share of power outages and blackouts, including the toppling of several towers and lines near Stayner in a major windstorm in 2008.
"This project will improve reliability, similar to the Toronto reliability upgrade now underway, both to the towns and the ski resorts and to all our residential and commercial customers in the area, and support the region's ability to grow without service or supply issues," said Laurie Skinner, Georgian Bay Area Superintendent for Hydro One.
"Our investments in Collingwood and The Blue Mountains this year, together with the work completed last year in the Stayner area and our planned work for Wasaga Beach, alongside the Timmins infrastructure investment made recently, all reflect Hydro One's commitment to investing in our system and providing a high level of service to our customers."
The first phase of the project was finished last year, when a 115kV transmission line from Barrie to Stayner was replaced by a higher capacity transmission tower line, similar to the Kenora transmission corridor upgrade now underway.
The corporation said the work represented a local investment of more than $4 million. In addition to this year's work in the Collingwood and Blue Mountains area, a final phase of the upgrade will see the installation of a new 44,000 volt pole line in the Town of Wasaga Beach by 2011, aligned with broader new power lines spending across Ontario, representing a distribution network upgrade investment of approximately $2.7 million.
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