Rebuilt 115 kV Transmission Line Bolsters Reliability for Entergy Mississippi Customers.

Entergy Transmission employees complete final inspection of the portion of the rebuilt Amite, Louisiana to Fernwood, Mississippi 115kV transmission line near McComb, which went into service recently.

Completion of this project relieved overloading of the Amite to Fernwood transmission line, which is part of the transmission system tie between Entergy Mississippi and Entergy Louisiana.

The entire transmission line is approximately 32 miles long, with 15 miles in Mississippi and 17 miles in Louisiana. Rebuilding and upgrading the line eliminated overloading under a number of circumstances. Prior to its rebuilding and upgrading, if part of this region’s extreme high voltage transmission network were to fault and trip while heavily loaded, this line would have overloaded until Entergy was able to redispatch generation to relieve the overload. The rebuilding and upgrading eliminates this situation.

The Louisiana portion went into service March 30, 2006, three weeks ahead of schedule.

Entergy Transmission employees shown are, (left to right) Sammie W. Pinkett, line operations coordinator; Rick Hodby, construction engineer, Terry Lucas, operations coordinator, and Charles Newell, transmission program manager.