Chicago Plans To Battle Power Outages With Superconductor Cables
- 10 years ago
Chicago’s will soon be getting an electricity upgrade that will help protect the city against power outages.
Chicagoans may soon be getting an electricity upgrade that will help protect the city against power outages.
Commonwealth Edison, the company that provides power for much of the state of Illinois announced they are planning to install superconducting cable below the city’s streets.
The new cables are considered to be much less vulnerable to both whims of nature and the acts of terrorists.
They’re 10 times more powerful than the current ones, meaning if an outage is feared, currents can be rerouted quickly and efficiently.
Chicago will likely be the first city to institute this type of measure, and much of the decision was informed by recent events, which have left millions without power, sometimes for days on end.
60 million dollars of the very expensive undertaking will be provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
The rest of the cost will be passed on to consumers.
There’s a lot more planning that needs to happen before work can begin.
ComEd estimates that the next six to nine months will be spent devising a course of action.
The first area to be serviced by the upgrade will be the Loop, the city’s downtown business district.
Chicagoans may soon be getting an electricity upgrade that will help protect the city against power outages.
Commonwealth Edison, the company that provides power for much of the state of Illinois announced they are planning to install superconducting cable below the city’s streets.
The new cables are considered to be much less vulnerable to both whims of nature and the acts of terrorists.
They’re 10 times more powerful than the current ones, meaning if an outage is feared, currents can be rerouted quickly and efficiently.
Chicago will likely be the first city to institute this type of measure, and much of the decision was informed by recent events, which have left millions without power, sometimes for days on end.
60 million dollars of the very expensive undertaking will be provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
The rest of the cost will be passed on to consumers.
There’s a lot more planning that needs to happen before work can begin.
ComEd estimates that the next six to nine months will be spent devising a course of action.
The first area to be serviced by the upgrade will be the Loop, the city’s downtown business district.