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Consultants Recommend New US‑50 Substation and Circuit Upgrades to Handle Lawrenceburg’s Projected Load Growth
Summary
A consultant told the Lawrenceburg utility work session on April 27 that the city needs a new substation near U.S. 50/IN‑48 and reconductoring of Aurora Road and the North Circuit within the next 3–10 years to avoid transformer overloads and provide redundancy; cost estimates range from about $5–8 million for a new substation or $3–5 million to upgrade existing transformers as a postponement strategy.
Consultants with the Indiana Municipal Power Agency service corps told Lawrenceburg’s utility work session on April 27 that the city’s electric system needs a new distribution substation near the U.S. 50/Indiana 48 corridor and conductor upgrades on Aurora Road and the North Circuit to handle planned and projected load growth.
"The peak load of your guys' system is 26.8 megawatts today, as of June 25," said Philopresto, an engineering consultant with the Indiana Municipal Power Agency service corps, during a 58‑page load growth presentation. He said the consultants modeled multiple growth scenarios (including 0.3%, 2.1% and 3.1% cases) and included known near‑term projects such as apartment complexes, warehouses and a planned industrial expansion by Precision Concepts in all of the study’s scenarios.
Why it matters: the study’s outputs show several circuits and transformers approaching or exceeding conservative thresholds. In one scenario the Express circuit…
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