CapX2020 has selected MYR Group and Quanta Services to provide construction services for the CapX2020 Group 1 transmission line projects in the US.
CapX2020 is a joint initiative of 11 transmission-owning utilities in Minnesota and the surrounding region proposing to build more than 700 miles of new transmission grid.
The first phase of the CapX2020 construction work will be performed by Quanta Services’ MJ Electric operating unit and MYR Group’s MYR Transmission Services (MYRT), and the construction projects will be assigned to each contractor over the next five years.
The first contract, for the Bemidji-Grand Rapids project, is expected to be signed between MJ Electric and CapX2020 by the end of first quarter 2011.
Under the proposed agreement, MJ Electric will install approximately 70 miles of 230kV transmission line between the Wilton Substation near Bemidji, Minnesota, and the Boswell Substation in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Construction work for the first phase is expected to begin in the summer of 2011 with a projected in-service date of late 2012.
The second contract, for the segment between St Cloud and Alexandria, is expected to be signed between MYRT and CapX2020 in early second quarter 2011.
Under the proposed agreement, MYRT will install approximately 60 miles of 345kV transmission line between the Quarry Substation near St Cloud, Minnesota, and the Alexandria Switching Station in Alexandria, Minnesota.
Construction work for the second phase is scheduled to begin late fall of 2011 with a projected in-service date of 2013.