Entergy Louisiana’s $100 M reliability project underway
US: Entergy Louisiana’s $100 M reliability project underway on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish will strengthen the delivery of reliable energy to existing and future customers in the area.
US: Entergy Louisiana’s $100 M reliability project underway on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish will strengthen the delivery of reliable energy to existing and future customers in the area.
The project, expected to be finished in mid-2020, includes the construction of a new substation, improvements to several existing substations, addition of a new transmission line, and upgrades to several existing transmission lines.
The new Churchill substation will be constructed between Westwego and Avondale and will serve as a new junction point for several existing and new 230 kV lines. Two existing substations, Alliance and Barataria, are undergoing major expansions to support planned and future 230 kV lines to accommodate future growth in the area. At another existing substation, Westwego, improvements will include adding capacity to accommodate additional load growth. Several other substations, Ninemile, Estelle, and Waterford, will undergo relaying upgrades to accommodate tying in Churchill to the electrical grid.
When completed, these facilities will provide a 230 kV transmission loop in Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes for additional capacity and redundancy, a new 115 kV source for customers in the Westwego area, and greater overall operational flexibility when outages occur, or critical maintenance is necessary.
Source: T&D World