Project Need and Description
Hydro One Networks Inc. (Hydro One) and the Local Distribution Companies that serve customers in the City of Burlington, Town of Milton and Town of Oakville have confirmed the need for a new electricity transformer station (TS). The new TS would relieve overloading at Hydro One’s Palermo TS on Bronte Road north of Highway 407 which currently supplies all three communities. The new station will ensure an adequate and reliable supply of power to meet growing electricity demand in southern Halton Region.
Hydro One is proposing to build the new transformer station within the study area, as shown on the map below. The proposed TS would initially include two 230/28 kilovolt (kV) transformers and would be connected to the existing double-circuit 230 kV transmission lines. Hydro One will be identifying alternative sites in the study area and will require approximately 10 acres for the new station.
Pending necessary approvals, Hydro One will begin construction in 2010 and plans to have the new facility in service by 2012.