ComEd has expanded its 765 kV Wilton Heart substation, enabling the most important cluster of utility-scale onshore wind and photo voltaic tasks interconnected to the Illinois electrical grid up to now, says the corporate.
“Policymakers, stakeholders and prospects need a cleaner vitality future, and we’re powering the grid modernization that can make this future a actuality,” says Gil Quiniones, CEO of ComEd. “Investments just like the growth of the Wilton Heart substation will make sure the profitable interconnection of recent renewable vitality technology to the grid in order that it may be delivered by way of our transmission system to communities throughout Illinois.”
The Wilton Heart substation, constructed in 1968 and situated close to Joliet, Unwell., helps ComEd’s highest voltage transmission traces of 765 kV, used for long-distance energy transmission. The Wilton Heart substation yard is roughly 1 million sq. toes and is anticipated to broaden by about 50% when building is full. Design engineering started in September, with work together with set up of recent circuit breakers, transformers, relay switches, community information and management techniques.
When full, the substation growth will assist 5 wind farms and two photo voltaic farms with the capability to provide a complete of as much as 2,450 MW of renewable vitality for the ComEd transmission system and the PJM vitality market,
The substation growth is anticipated to be full and proposed wind farms are anticipated to be operational in late 2026.
