Champlain Hudson Power Express Reaches Newburgh

The Mother Ship for Electric Cable Laying Project.

It has anchored,at times, across the Hudson River from our club during the last couple of months.

This ship handles the laying of the cables that will carry the electricity. It is joined by other smaller boats which handle the burying of the cable beneath the river bed.

It has anchored across the Hudson River from our club during the last couple of months.

In October and continuing into November, we had a representative of the project on the club property. He was was set up at the river’s edge in a van with radio communications and GPS to track ships and boat traffic on the river. He said his job was to alert captains of work by the project’s boats installing the cables just ahead up the river.

He noted, at this time our club was the most southern location of the cable installation and that’s why he was here.

Two 5-inch, High Voltage Direct Current cables are being layed down about 340-miles to carry the hydro and wind power electric power from Ontario direct to New York City. They will be buried about 7 to 9 feet in Lake Champlain and the Hudson River and underground.

The cost of the project for the New York State section of the project is 2.2 billion dollars. Total cost of the project 4.5 billion dollars.

It is estimated that 1,400 jobs will be created by the CHPE Project. It is projected this will save New York Consumers billions of dollars on their electric bills in the first years of it’s operations and help retire older uneconomic power plants.