PSE&G’s $3.5 B infrastructure investments
PSE&G’s planned infrastructure investments in 2023 exceed $3.5 B and aim to enhance resiliency and maintain reliability.
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USA, Newark: PSE&G’s planned infrastructure investments in 2023 exceed $3.5 B and aim to enhance resiliency and maintain reliability.
Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G), New Jersey’s largest utility, prepared itself to meet customer demand for safe, reliable electricity. PSE&G’s 2023 planned capital expenditures of more than $3.5 B represent the largest investment plan in the utility’s history.
“Our investments in new infrastructure have helped us remain one of the nation’s most reliable utility companies, bringing significant benefits to PSE&G customers,” said John Latka, PSE&G senior vice president – electric transmission and distribution.
Some examples of projects completed in 2023 that will have a big impact on electric reliability include:
the $350 M Newark Switch Rebuild Project, which modernized the aging infrastructure that was put into service in 1957, while also increasing reliability by redistributing crucial loads to other facilities when needed.
the 82-km $550 M Roseland – Pleasant Valley Project, which replaced older transmission facilities that were approx. 90 years old.
the expansion of the growing 69 kV network in New Jersey: the company has completed several substation hardening and transformer replacement projects to maintain reliability and circuit upgrades to improve the reliability of 561 distribution circuits.
Through Dec. 2023, PSE&G is also implementing a number of significant reliability projects under its $842 M Energy Strong II program including: raising and hardening equipment in 16 stations located in flood zones, upgrading to smart grid technologies, storm hardening of certain circuits to reduce power outages by adding measures such as upgraded poles and cables, and creating an advanced distribution management system to make the system smarter, improve outage response and upgrade and secure vital communications networks.
Source: T&D World
