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Hydro One Timmins grid upgrades modernize Ontario's electrical distribution network with higher-voltage lines, substation elimination, and standardized infrastructure, boosting reliability, outage management, and efficiency for homes, businesses, and industrial customers across the region.
Context and Background
Upgrades raise line voltage and standardize Timmins network, improving reliability, outage response, and efficiency.
- Higher-voltage lines replace legacy circuits
- Local station decommissioned; old poles removed
- Final phase includes North Porcupine in 2015
Hydro One recently announced the completion of $2.5 million of upgrades to the electricity infrastructure in Timmins that will improve reliability, provide better power quality and increase capacity to support new growth in the area.
Work has recently been completed in the Dalton Road area of Timmins to upgrade existing distribution lines, similar to the Kenora corridor upgrade undertaken elsewhere, to a higher voltage allowing the elimination of a local distribution station in the area. Some remaining clean-up work, involving removal of old poles and substation equipment remains to be completed in early 2015.
In 2015, similar work is planned for the North Porcupine area and is the final stage of a multi-year upgrade plan that started in 2004 at total cost of $32 million, alongside transmission station refurbishment efforts across the network. This investment has resulted in improved system reliability, echoing Toronto reliability upgrades seen recently, and better outage management in the City of Timmins and the standardization of the entire electrical distribution network.
"Investing prudently in our distribution system is critical to ensure local electricity needs are being met for today and for the future," said Carm Marcello, President and CEO, Hydro One. "The work in Timmins achieved our goals of modernizing the system, as demonstrated by the Chesterville transformer upgrade project and improving efficiency of local operations."
Hydro One delivers electricity safely, reliably and responsibly to homes and businesses across the province of Ontario, including the Georgian Bay area investment initiatives, and owns and operates Ontario's 29,000 km high-voltage transmission network that delivers electricity to large industrial customers and municipal utilities, and a 122,000 km low-voltage distribution system that serves about 1.3 million end-use customers and smaller municipal utilities in the province. Hydro One is wholly owned by the Province of Ontario.
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