Kenora transmission corridor being upgraded


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Hydro One Kenora transmission upgrades strengthen grid reliability Northwestern Ontario, replacing poles and steel cross arms, using helicopters and bucket trucks through forest to modernize infrastructure, meet rising power demand, and speed outage repairs.

 

Understanding the Story

A Hydro One project replacing poles and cross arms to modernize Kenora's grid, improve reliability, meet rising demand.

  • Replacing 50+ poles and 900 lb steel cross arms
  • Helicopter delivery; bucket trucks install 27 m poles
  • 15 km of lines through forested terrain upgraded
  • Eleven-week program boosts reliability and capacity
  • Supports outage response and Kenora District growth

 

Hydro One is investing more than $2 million this year to upgrade its transmission lines in the Kenora District, to improve service reliability and strengthen the existing infrastructure supporting Ontario's province-wide transmission system.

 

The work includes replacing more than 50 poles in the area from the Pellican Pouch region west of Kenora, and extending to Kenora, reflecting Hydro One's pole replacement effort underway provincially.

Some of the transmission line follows a route through dense bush and forest, requiring specialized equipment.

Crews have already begun replacing cross arms and hydro poles along 15 kilometres of lines, using helicopters to bring new poles to the work sites, and employing large bucket trucks to install the 27-meter tall poles and 900 lbs. steel cross arms, similar to upgrade work in Kincardine carried out recently.

"We have made improvements to our Kenora Transmission Corridor an important focus in recent years," said Myles D'Arcey, Senior Vice President Customer Operations, Hydro One. "Our ongoing investments in upgrading and maintaining the electricity infrastructure in Kenora District are part of Hydro One's commitment to investing in our system, such as the Ontario/Michigan interconnection project, and providing a high level of service for our customers in Northwestern Ontario."

The work began in mid-January and is expected to be completed later this month. Another major work program will then get underway, east of Kenora to Willard Lake, and continue to the end of April, mirroring investment in Timmins on infrastructure upgrades.

This is the third year that Hydro One has carried out similar upgrade work to transmission infrastructure in the Kenora area, including a recent transmission station refurbishment initiative that complements local projects, investing more than $3 million since 2007 to maintain long-term system reliability. This year's investments are being completed over a period of eleven weeks, and are designed to meet growing demand for power in the region, improve reliability, and help facilitate repairs when outages occur.

 

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