HIBBING — Hibbing Public Utilities will host a landowner-specific meeting as it is in the early design phases of a new overhead transmission line.
The meeting will be at the Maple Hill Community Club at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 7.
The Southern Interconnect Project includes about 3 miles of new 115-kV line between the existing Great River Energy substation on Maple Hill Road and an existing Minnesota Power line south of Town Line Road.
The project also supports the build of a new substation near Hibbing’s water treatment facility.
“The project will address the needs of our local system to add additional redundancy and links to the grid," stated Hibbing Public Utility General Manager Luke Peterson in a news release.
"Constructing this new line and adding two new connection points will take Hibbing from relying on one aging grid connection to having three independent connections for HPU to source & deliver power.”
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