Ameren Illinois upgrading substation in St. Louis
Ameren Illinois is constructing a substation and upgrading structures to enhance energy reliability for customers in East St. Louis and surrounding communities.
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USA, Missouri, St. Louis: Ameren Illinois is constructing a new substation and upgrading structures to enhance energy reliability for customers in East St. Louis and surrounding communities.
The substation will replace the existing Ridge substation. Ameren Illinois purchased the land adjecent to the existing substation to expand the site for new substation. The company is also upgrading power lines and power poles leading into and out of the substation. The new power lines will create alternate pathways with other substations to re-route and deliver power if an outage occurs.
When completed by November 2020, the new $14.5 M Ridge substation and structures will provide added resiliency and enhanced power service to 30,000 customers in the area.
“This project is another key step in our long-range plans to construct a more robust electric grid to meet our customers growing needs,” said Jason Klein, Electric Operations Director for Ameren Illinois.
The Ridge substation is the third major investment Ameren Illinois has made in East St. Louis in the last four years, the first to being the construction of the Katherine Dunham substation in 2016, and the company reinvesting $10.6 M to completely renovate its local operating center in town in 2017.
These enhancements are part of Ameren Illinois’ multi-year initiative to modernise its energy delivery system. Since 2012, the company has implemented hundreds of projects, and as a result, reliability has improved by an average of 17 % and the time of an outage has been reduced by 19 %.
Source: T&D World