Southern Terminus Quebec - New England HVDC System
USA /
Massachusetts /
Littleton /
World
/ USA
/ Massachusetts
/ Littleton
World / United States / Massachusetts
electrical grid station, fenced area
2000MW capacity HVDC power line running from the hydro fields of Quebec to the Boston area. Static inverter uses thyristors and 450Kv transmission lines. The system was put in operation in 1992.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_-_New_England_Transmission
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 42°34'14"N 71°31'27"W
- Sterling Substation 21 km
- Electrical Substation 23 km
- Scobe Pond Electrical Switch Yard 40 km
- Electric Power Substation 71 km
- Electric Power Substation 78 km
- Putnam Substation 82 km
- Hinsdale Sub Station 85 km
- Card Substation 113 km
- Manchester Substation 123 km
- Electrical sub-station 198 km
- Lost Lake 2.5 km
- MIT Haystack Observatory 5.7 km
- East Boston Camps 7.2 km
- Scribner Hill 8.7 km
- Greystone Estates, Westford, MA 11 km
- Fletcher Granite Quarry 11 km
- North Chelmsford, Massachusetts 13 km
- Pawtucketville (Lowell) 17 km
- Dracut-Lowell-Tyngsboro State Forest 17 km
- Dracut, Massachusetts 22 km
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