Appalachian Power Plans $60 Million In Infrastructure Upgrades

Appalachian Power Company has announced a $60 million modernization project in Jackson and Mason counties.

In a news release, the utility says it will upgrade about 30 miles of aging infrastructure across the region in an effort “to help reduce the likelihood of extended power outages.”

The work is expected to start in the fall of 2019 and take about two years to complete.

“The transmission line rebuild starts in Ripley and travels north for approximately 10 miles towards Ravenswood,” the utility says on its website. “Study segments then head west for about eight miles towards the Jackson County Maritime & Industrial Center. From there, study segments turn south for approximately three miles towards Cottageville. The last seven miles of the rebuild travels west into Mason County to a connection point just west of Sand Hill Road.”

Source: wire WORLD