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Council authorizes Duke Energy transmission upgrades with planned overnight and daytime lane closures

City Council · January 5, 2026
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Summary

The council authorized Duke Energy’s plan to replace transmission poles and upgrade conductors near Collins Road and Worsville Road, approving conditional scheduling and permitting for overnight matting work and short daytime lane closures around Clark Pleasant Middle School. Authorization is contingent on staff review of traffic-control plans.

Duke Energy (via a presenter identified in the transcript as David McCann) told the council it will replace several transmission poles and upgrade wiring on Collins Road and Worsville Road to improve grid reliability, and that the work will require staged matting delivered by semitrucks and intermittent road closures.

McCann said crews plan overnight mat placement with work windows running roughly 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. on the scheduled nights and that crews will return later to remove matting. He said crews expect…

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