From the field

York Elec­tric con­tin­ues to strength­en and expand its sys­tem to serve mem­bers and our grow­ing com­mu­ni­ty, even as the cost of mate­ri­als and equip­ment con­tin­ues to rise. As a coop­er­a­tive, we’re oblig­at­ed to serve, and these invest­ments ensure your co-op can meet increas­ing demand while keep­ing reli­a­bil­i­ty strong.

Fol­low­ing is an update on ongo­ing projects:

• Fort Mill’s Spring­maid Sub­sta­tion is near­ing com­ple­tion and will be ener­gized this fall, sup­port­ed by new over­head and under­ground lines to feed four cir­cuits. The substation’s design allows for faster restora­tion times dur­ing out­ages.
• Con­struc­tion of the Banks Street sub­sta­tion is also under­way. Crews are build­ing addi­tion­al cir­cuits to serve expand­ing com­mu­ni­ties, accom­mo­date growth in Lan­cast­er Coun­ty and to cre­ate redun­dan­cy and remove load from our North Lan­cast­er sub­sta­tion.
• In Lan­cast­er County’s Kins­dale sub­di­vi­sion, we’re upgrad­ing over­head line to a larg­er con­duc­tor, or wire, set to serve these new homes. We’re prepar­ing to bury main lines to the homes in the com­ing months.
• Our crews coor­di­nat­ed with SCDOT to relo­cate under­ground util­i­ties along High­way 160 and over­head ser­vices along High­way 21. Con­trac­tor crews fin­ished pole replace­ments, and YEC crews com­plet­ed back­lot bur­ial projects in neigh­bor­hoods across our ser­vice ter­ri­to­ry with tight sub­di­vi­sions, back­yards and heav­i­ly wood­ed areas.
• Sys­tem-wide improve­ments are being made by sec­tion­al­iz­ing areas of our dis­tri­b­u­tion lines so that we can restore more mem­bers faster in out­age sit­u­a­tions. This year we focused on our Big­gers Branch Sub­sta­tion serv­ing parts of west­ern York Coun­ty.
• Clover will be open­ing a new Lake Wylie High School that your co-op is proud to serve. Work con­tin­ues to install the nec­es­sary equip­ment to serve the school as it pre­pares to wel­come stu­dents.