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Enhanced Energy Grid

• Bolstering the energy grid serving downtown Bloomington customers by rebuilding and enhancing equipment in and around the distribution substation on South Roosevelt Avenue Added specially designed fencing to keep squirrels, raccoons and other animals from wandering into substations and causing an outage.
• Fitting substations throughout Bloomington with new technology and relays and other advanced communication technology to provide real-time views into the substations and help reduce outage time for customers.

Enhanced Energy Grid

• Added a state-of-the-art substation that bolsters service reliability and load capacity while reducing maintenance costs for customers in Champaign and Bondville.
• Upgraded underground facilities that serve the downtown Champaign business district with additional backup feed.
• Installed IntelliRupters — automated switching devices — in Urbana and Champaign to reduce the number of customers affected by an outage and the length of outages.
• Added several new substation reclosers, called Vipers, in Champaign, Urbana, Rantoul and Savoy, to detect problems on the power lines, such as a lightning strike or a fallen tree limb, and reduce the number of customers affected by a power outage.

Enhanced Energy Grid

• Expanded the footprint of a substation on County Highway 20, to re-route power from other sources during an outage event to decrease outage times.
• Added a transformer to the Oreana substation just north of Decatur, that improves reliability and adds capacity for the Illiopolis, Argenta, Oreana and Monticello communities. That’s the energy equivalent of expanding a two-lane highway to four lanes.
• Added additional advanced communication technology in several substations throughout Decatur.
• Added smart switching devices to the electric system in Decatur. These automated and remotely controllable switching devices sense the condition of the electric system and determine appropriate switching actions to reduce the number of customers affected by an outage.

Enhanced Natural Gas Delivery System

• Replaced a 10 inch steel natural gas transmission pipeline just south of the Sangamon River/Lake Decatur in Decatur, in order to strengthen the integrity and reliability of the natural gas system feeding the Decatur area.

Enhanced Energy Grid

• Installed outage detection technology throughout the Metro East. These devices reduce the number of customers affected by an outage.
• Expanded the substation at 20th Street and Martin Luther King Drive to provide added resiliency to customers in East St. Louis and additional poles and lines that create alternate pathways with other substations to re-route and deliver power if an outage occurs.
• Constructed more than three miles of new power lines between Dupo and Centerville substations to create an additional circuit tie.
• Enhanced the Stallings electric substation for Granite City and Edwardsville by expanding the capacity of the unit with an additional transformer.
• Added outage detection technology to two different circuits in Bethalto and one circuit in Rosewood Heights. This enhancement better integrates Bethalto and Rosewood Heights with the energy grid.

Enhanced Natural Gas Delivery System

• Replaced approximately 2,400 feet of distribution main with new coated steel pipe that will fully protect the pipeline from corrosion, while allowing for increased system capacity, safety and reliability to natural gas customers served in the Madison area.
• Replaced the Columbia natural gas delivery station and upgraded pressure protection equipment to assure natural gas system reliability.

Enhanced Energy Grid

• Upgraded poles along a five-mile stretch from Mt. Sterling to Versailles with composite poles that stabilize the lines and prevent poles from falling in high winds.
• Installed IntelliRupters — automated switching devices — in throughout Quincy that will reduce the number of customers affected by an outage and the length of outages.

Enhanced Natural Gas Delivery System

• Replaced a 1.25 mile stretch of natural gas pipeline and customer gas services along Broadway Street in Quincy with modern, corrosion-resistant polyethylene material.

Enhanced Energy Grid

• Enhanced the grid in Peoria and Stark County by upgrading power poles to composite poles along a 30-mile route that stabilize the lines and prevent poles from falling in high winds.
• Created alternate pathways to re-route power if an outage occurs by adding 200 power poles and eight miles of power lines in Allentown.

Enhanced Natural Gas Delivery System

• Replaced over 16-inch steel, high-pressure transmission pipeline from Tremont to East Peoria, Tremont to Pekin, and Pekin to East Peoria to strengthen the integrity and reliability of the natural gas system and enhance public safety.

Enhanced Natural Gas Delivery System

• Installed nearly 80,000 feet of polyethylene pipeline that is less prone to shifting that can occur when the ground freezes and then thaws.
• Replaced natural gas pipeline with modern, corrosion-resistant polyethylene material.