FROM THE NEWSROOM: This current winter, Brooklyn residents can expect to see helicopter flights pulling lines through new transmission structures as part of Connecticut Light & Powers (CL&P) Interstate Reliability Project. In a news release from the utility company, officials say the latest phase of helicopter flights will occur intermittently throughout early 2015 in the towns of Brooklyn and Hampton – additional phases of this aerial work will be completed in Brooklyn, Pomfret, Killingly, Putnam and Thompson in the spring. Work on the Interstate Reliability Project began in 2013 and includes the construction of a new overhead 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line on 37 miles of existing right-of-way from Lebanon, Connecticut, to the Rhode Island border in Thompson. This project will be completed in late 2015. The most recent project update is the announcement that CL&P will resume helicopter lining in the Windham area next week. “Using the helicopter for this work reduces the amount of time needed to complete the wire-stringing process from days to hours, compared to conventional methods,” said Dwayne Basler, Vice President of Transmission Projects, Engineering & Maintenance for Northeast Utilities, parent company of CL&P. “This work is part of our Interstate Reliability Project, CL&P’s significant transmission upgrade, which expands customer access to clean power sources and continues to improve transmission system reliability in the region.”
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:00:35 +0000
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