{"id":28627,"date":"2025-01-18T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/chatham-to-lakeshore-transmission-line-complete-a-year-ahead-of-time\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:12:32","slug":"chatham-to-lakeshore-transmission-line-complete-a-year-ahead-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/chatham-to-lakeshore-transmission-line-complete-a-year-ahead-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatham to Lakeshore transmission line complete a year ahead of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CHATHAM, ONT. \u2013\u00a0Construction of the Chatham to Lakeshore transmission line has been completed a year ahead of schedule, the province and Hydro One are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Valued at an estimated $237 million, the line will bring 400 megawatts of electricity to the Windsor-Essex Region, which is enough energy to power the entire City of Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ontario\u2019s Independent Electricity System Operator, electricity demand in the Windsor-Essex region is expected to more than double over the next 20 years, driven largely by agricultural and industrial growth, explains a release.<\/p>\n<p>Construction began in spring 2023 on the 49-kilometre, 230-kilovolt line between the Chatham Switching Station in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent and the new Lakeshore Transformer Station in the Municipality of Lakeshore.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro One was able to reduce the cost of the project by approximately $30 million by finishing it early, the release reads.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/infrastructure\/2025\/01\/chatham-to-lakeshore-transmission-line-complete-a-year-ahead-of-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CHATHAM, ONT. \u2013\u00a0Construction of the Chatham to Lakeshore transmission line has been completed a year ahead of schedule, the &#8230; <a title=\"Chatham to Lakeshore transmission line complete a year ahead of time\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/chatham-to-lakeshore-transmission-line-complete-a-year-ahead-of-time\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chatham to Lakeshore transmission line complete a year ahead of time\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-28627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}