Con Edison invests $2.3 B into grid resilience
The projects include the installation of substation equipment, 28 underground and 69 overhead transformers, 938 sections of underground and overhead cable and 241 poles.
The projects include the installation of substation equipment, 28 underground and 69 overhead transformers, 938 sections of underground and overhead cable and 241 poles.
Two older cables were replaced with two 138 kV underground cables from a substation in Travis on the west side to a substation on Dongan Hills Avenue on the east side.
The project will help connect the Sunset Park onshore substation at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into the New York City electrical grid at Con Edison’s Gowanus substation.
Con Edison has started building the Brooklyn Clean Energy Hub, a new transmission substation.
USA, New York City: Con Edison’s Reliable Clean City projects are set to add 900 MW of transmission capacity across New York City by 2025.
Con Edison, acquired six new mobile medium-voltage substations from Siemens that can be used for rapid emergency response.
Siemens is providing Con Edison, the utility that powers New York City and local areas, with six mobile resilience transformers to help replace units within days rather than weeks in times of extreme weather like hurricanes or other major substation events.
USA, New York: The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved Con Edison’s Brooklyn/Queens Demand Management (BQDM) Programme to address overload of sub-transmission feeders serving Brownsville 1 and 2 substations.