FirstEnergy updates Ellsworth residents about upcoming substation, grid upgrades

WFMJ · last updated March 13, 2025 – 4:47 AM

“By interconnecting the system, basically networking the system from Salt Springs all the way to Ellsworth, and then splitting basically the line you have today called the Berlin Lake-Boardman, from building that station. So any faults or any conditions that happen on one side of the line or the other side of the line, Ellsworth won’t see an outage,” explained FirstEnergy Transmission Planning Manager Jay Salem.

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