2 new Quincy power sub-stations

QUINCY — There will be two new substations at Quincy Plains and Cloudview, built through a new process by which one contractor does the entire job.

The two new substations, Quincy Plains and Cloudview, will both be constructed within the Port of Quiincy. The Quincy Plains substation is being built for an industrial customer and will serve that customer. The Cloudview substation is being built at the request of another customer but will have room for two additional industrial customers, Munro said.

The Cloudview construction is scheduled to begin in October and will be completed by August 2017. Construction for Quincy Plains starts in November and should be completed by August 2017.

Grant PUD adopted a new process to build and fix substations. The whole project is designed and built by the same company to PUD specifications. Andrew Munro, of the PUD, said utility district officials decided to use the “design-build” system as a way to speed up the process.

The PUD had been looking at a backlog extending up to five years to finish current substation projects and requests, Munro explained, and the design-build system is projected to cut the construction time significantly to about only 18 months.

An existing substation near Quincy at Babcock has old equipment in it that’s being replaced, Munro said. The substation at Winchester in the Quincy Valley is over capacity and is being upgraded to improve its reliability. Construction on the Babcock substation begins in June and should be completed in October, while construction at the Winchester substation is scheduled for October 2016 to May 2017.

For more information, please contact publicaffairs@portofquincy.org or 509-214-7696.