PPL Lays Out New Power Line Route

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Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 12, 2011 | 11:21 AM

PPL has announced a route for a new power line it says will improve electricity for 250,000 customers in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The Morning Call has more details.

The $200 million project will construct three new substations, build 60 miles of new 230-kilovolt power lines and rebuild 20 miles of existing 69 kilovolt lines for customers in parts of Lackawanna, Monroe, Wayne, Pike and Luzerne counties.
It’s part of $3.4 billion in infrastructure improvements PPL has planned throughout its 29-county service area between 2011 and 2015.
The new transmission line would start at an existing substation in Jenkins, north of Wilkes-Barre, head southeast to a new West Pocono substation north of Blakeslee, northeast to a new North Pocono substation north of Gouldsboro, continuing northeast to the third new Paupack substation near Lakeville.