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MAKING THENEWS New Jersey line

Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) has begun construction on a new substation project in New Jersey to improve service reliability for over 180,000 customers in Monmouth county.

using steel poles to replace the current wooden structures.

The overall cost of the project is $124 million, with around $97 million to be spent in 2016. “This transmission project will make our system inMonmouth county more resilient and help meet the growing demand for electricity in the region,” said Jim Fakult, president of JCP&L. “Along with the greater redundancies provided by the new transmission line, the high-tech substation devices we plan to install will give us the ability to operate the system remotely, automatically resetting the equipment instead of having to send a line crew to investigate the cause of the problem.” The new transmission line is expected to be completed and in-service by June 2017.

Work is underway on the new substation project

The project includes building a 230kV steel pole construction transmission line, along 16 miles of existing right-of-way, to connect JCP&L substations in Howell and Neptune. In addition, an existing 230kV transmission line connecting substations in Colts Neck and Neptune will be rebuilt

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