An artist’s impression of New York City’s new power converter station, now below development
CHPE
New York City has begun development work to hook up its power grid with a deliberate 546-kilometre-long transmission line that will carry electrical energy from hydropower crops within the Canadian province of Quebec. Once accomplished, the $6 billion venture goals to present New York City with 1250 megawatts of renewable power.
The centrepiece of the Champlain Hudson Power Express – often known as CHPE, pronounced “chippy” – is to be a buried high-voltage, direct present transmission line that runs …