+ Click here for details of the Schodack to Claverack portion of our project.

• Build a new 345 kV switching station on utility-owned land in Schodack;

• Remove 80-year-old lattice transmission structures along approximately 22 miles of the existing utility corridor;

• Install new, double circuit monopole transmission structures, with an average height increase of 10 feet, that will carry an existing 115 kV line and a new 345 kV line. One existing 115 kV transmission line will be permanently retired.

+ Between Claverack and Pleasant Valley, we will:

• Rebuild an existing switching station on utility-owned property in Claverack;

• Remove 80-year-old lattice transmission structures, which sit in side-by-side pairs along approximately 32 miles of the existing utility corridor;

• Install a single row of new, double circuit monopole transmission structures, with an average height increase of 10 feet, to carry a new 345 kV line and one existing 115 kV line. Three existing 115 kV lines will be removed;

• Upgrade one existing section of the 2.2-mile Blue Stores tap line in the Town of Livingston, replacing the existing H-frame structures with an equal number of new H-frame structures with an average height increase of 15 feet. The existing 115 kV line will remain on the new structures;

• Construct a capacitor bank station and supporting infrastructure on utility-owned property off Van Wagner Road, approximately 0.8 miles northwest of the Pleasant Valley Substation. This location is adjacent to an existing utility corridor (different corridor from the other NYES work). Two existing lattice transmission structures in this corridor will be replaced by four H-frame structures approximately 95 feet tall, which is similar height to nearby structures and 45 feet lower than the tallest existing structures that will remain in the corridor. Other lattice structures currently in the corridor will remain, but new wire or conductor will be strung on these existing structures. This work is called a reconductoring. Like all of our project, this work will take place entirely within existing utility corridors and on utility-owned property. Please note: This is a change from the original project design, made to reduce impacts, respond to local stakeholder feedback and to streamline construction processes.