LORDSTOWN FirstEnergy will invest more than $31 million here to expand its transmission system to support the rapidly growing electric-vehicle industry, led, in part, by the advanced technology battery-cell plant Ultium Cells LLC.
The two-phase project will supply a backup line to the massive Tod Avenue SW facility and a third primary line meant to “accommodate projected future energy needs,” Lauren Siburkis, spokeswoman for the Akron-based electric company, said.
Under construction now is phase one, a new 106,250-square-foot substation on Tod Avenue SW near Henn Parkway and a half-mile, high-voltage transmission line that will connect to an existing high-voltage line nearby.
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LORDSTOWN FirstEnergy will invest more than $31 million here to expand its transmission system to support the rapidly growing electric-vehicle industry, led, in part, by the advanced technology battery-cell plant Ultium Cells LLC.
The two-phase project will supply a backup line to the massive Tod Avenue SW facility and a third primary line meant to “accommodate projected future energy needs,” Lauren Siburkis, spokeswoman for the Akron-based electric company, said.
Under construction now is phase one, a new 106,250-square-foot substation on Tod Avenue SW near Henn Parkway and a half-mile, high-voltage transmission line that will connect to an existing high-voltage line nearby.