Across the Wide Missouri

摘要

With a bridge scheduled for demolition, KCP&L faces the challenge of relocating the attached electric circuits. In 2007, when the Missouri Department of Transportation notified Kansas City Power & Light that the Highway 240 bridge over the Missouri River in Glasgow, Missouri, U.S., was scheduled for demolition, it came as no surprise to the utility. Constructed in 1925, the bridge looked its age and needed to be replaced. The problem for KCP&L was that the bridge carried two electric circuits on its superstructure: the 34-kV line was part of a sub-transmission loop in the utility's east district, and the 12-kV circuit served customers out of the Glasgow substation.