Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) announced last week that it completed upgrades to more than 80 major circuits in 2017 to enhance service reliability to approximately 175,000 customers in 150 communities in northern and central New Jersey.
The program included investments of approximately $4.7 million.
As part of the program, workers installed 750 new pieces of equipment to help identify outages and restore service automatically and placed 250 animal guard devices on poles and in substations to decrease the number of outages caused by squirrels, birds and other animals. The program also attached 390 lightning arrestors to electrical equipment to help protect the system during storms and replaced 50 poles, 330 crossarms, and approximately 18,000 feet of wire.
“Upgrading our distribution circuits is an important part of the overall work we do because it focuses on enhancing the part of our electrical equipment that is closest to our customers,” Mark Jones, vice president of Operations for JCP&L, said. “These projects are designed to reduce the number of service interruptions our customers might experience or reduce the duration if an outage occurs.”
Over the past five years, JCP&L has completed similar upgrades on more than 500 circuits.
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