{"id":197302,"date":"2025-09-18T20:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197302"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:51:54","slug":"aep-proposes-transmission-line-projecct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/aep-proposes-transmission-line-projecct\/","title":{"rendered":"AEP proposes transmission line projecct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AEP Ohio Transmission Company, Inc. has submitted a Letter of Notification to the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) for the proposed Van Wert\u2013Haviland 138 kilovolt (kV) Transmission Line Project. The $45 million investment will rebuild and upgrade approximately 10.9 miles of existing transmission infrastructure in Paulding and Van Wert counties to ensure reliable service and support future economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will replace aging wooden poles from 1926 with modern steel monopoles and rebuild the existing 69 kV line as a double-circuit line designed for 138 kV (initially operated at 69 kV). About 8.7 miles of the line will follow the current right-of-way, while 2.2 miles will shift to a new corridor to reduce environmental and residential impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resolves baseline thermal violations identified by PJM in its 2026 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improves reliability for approximately 416 customers historically affected by outages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provides capacity to serve new industrial and commercial load at the Van Wert Mega Site, an Ohio Jobs Ready Certified site that has seen high demand for service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Ensures compliance with modern safety and structural standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction is expected to begin in December 2025 with an anticipated in-service date of December 2026. AEP Ohio will notify landowners directly, publish public notices in local newspapers, and maintain project information online at <a href=\"https:\/\/aeaptransmission.com\/ohio\">www.aeptransmission.com\/ohio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information AEP Ohio Transmission Company, Inc. has submitted a Letter of Notification to the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) for the proposed Van Wert\u2013Haviland 138 kilovolt (kV) Transmission Line Project. The $45 million investment will rebuild and upgrade approximately 10.9 miles of existing transmission infrastructure in Paulding and Van Wert counties to ensure reliable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 14:47:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197303,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197302\/revisions\/197303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}