Bloomington Rogers Street - 11th Street - Dunn Street

Our goal at Duke Energy is to provide dependable power every day to the communities we serve. To keep that commitment, we need to build new transmission lines in Bloomington, Ind., to add capacity for current and future electrical system demand and to adequately serve the city. The new power lines will feed three distribution substations in a 3.3-mile transmission corridor and provide a continuous, enhanced reliable flow of energy for you and your community. Our goal is to minimize impacts to nearby homes, businesses, the environment and cultural resources during construction. 

Project Need

Based on demand growth in this area and projections in 2020 and beyond, this project will help ensure power quality and continued reliability for Bloomington and customers in the city. This new infrastructure will be built in three phases.

Project Description

The Bloomington Rogers Street - 11th Street - Dunn Street new 69-kilovolt line project includes:

• New 69-kV transmission lines to connect two existing substations at 1604 S. Rogers St. (Rogers Street substation) and 1501 E. 13th St. (Dunn Street substation) and the new 11th Street substation at the northwest corner of 11th and Rogers streets 
• One new line will exit the Rogers Street substation and run north to the 11th Street substation, then exist and tap into an existing 69-kV line out of the Dunn Street substation
• Another new line will run from Dunn Street substation to an existing transmission line on Jackson Street between 15th and 11th streets 
• Phase One of the project is the line segment from the 11th Street substation to Dunn Street substation  

Benefits to the Community

• Provides additional capacity to continue to deliver reliable electricity to meet the growing needs of Bloomington and Duke Energy customers
• Provides more options for delivering and managing power in the area, enhancing the integrity of the system
• Improves electrical system reliability
• Better addresses the impact of severe weather in the city
• Maintains a robust system for supplying and delivering electricity, which is integral to ensuring the continued economic growth and prosperity of the city and region
• Improves power quality and reliability for decades to come

Engagement 

Community engagement is an essential part of our siting process and allows us to receive input and to share information about this project.

Announcements

Final preferred route announced on May 31, 2017.
Open house meeting March 8, 2017.