wiredinUSA January 2012

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Pioneer in Indiana

Pioneer Transmission, a joint venture between American Electric Power and Duke Energy is to begin work on a 66-mile power transmission project in the US state of Indiana. The $245m line will connect between the existing Greentown substation and the new New Reynolds substation. Pioneer Transmission’s Greentown-New Reynolds project was designated as one of 17 multi-value projects included in the Midwest ISO transmission expansion plan. The engineering, permitting and siting activities for the transmission project are scheduled to begin in 2012.

Pioneer Transmission president Bob Bradish said the project aims to develop a new high-capacity, extra-high-voltage transmission system to meet evolving demand for energy and modernize the electric transmission infrastructure. The company will construct and own the 765kV New Reynolds substation to handle the interconnection of multiple power line voltages at this location. Greentown-New Reynolds is part of a larger, 240-mile transmission project in Indiana that would extend from Duke Energy’s Greentown substation and terminate at AEP’s Rockport substation near Evansville.

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