A group of Alfred University students, faculty, and staff took a trip to Dansville on Tuesday, April 21, to visit the New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) Meyer Substation, which is in the midst of a $122 million upgrade project. Visitors from Alfred talked with employees of Avangrid, the parent company for NYSEG, about the new equipment being installed at the substation and how it will help improve delivery of power to customers in the region.
A group of students, faculty and staff from Alfred University view a new transformer at the New York State Gas and Electric (NYSEF) Meyer Substation in Dansville. The group from Alfred toured the Meyer Substation Tuesday, April 21, to learn about a $122 million project to upgrade the facility.
The investment by NYSEG in the Meyer Substation will improve energy capacity, grid resiliency, and reliability to approximately 6,740 customers in the village of Dansville and surrounding communities through its distribution lines. This substation also supports energy delivery to thousands of other customers in the state through transmission lines. The project is part of Avangrid and NYSEG’s more than $7 billion in planned investments to modernize critical grid infrastructure through 2030 to meet growing energy demands and protect communities they serve against severe weather events.
The Meyer Substation was originally constructed in 1948. According to a NYSEG press release from last August announcing the substation upgrade, the project will be done in two phases. Phase one will help increase energy capacity and reliability with the addition of a new transformer, new breakers, plus additional support which will help prevent outages for customers. Phase one is estimated to be completed and placed in service in 2026.
Phase two of construction is expected to begin in 2027. NYSEG will add two more transformers and re-use a current transformer to help further increase capacity. The company will also add other components that will allow for future capacity growth opportunities. NYSEG estimates completion of phase two in 2029.
A group of students, faculty and staff from Alfred University at a tour of the New York State Gas and Electric (NYSEF) Meyer Substation in Dansville, site of a $122 million upgrade project.
The Alfred University group’s trip to the Meyer Substation was facilitated by Alfred University alumna and Board of Trustees member Trish Nilsen ’88, who serves as president and CEO of Avangrid companies New York State Electric and Gas, and Rochester Gas & Electric.
The following from Alfred University took part in the visit to the Meyer Substation: students Md Hasibuzzaman Sarker (sophomore electrical engineering major from Bangladesh), Chevy Adriaans (sophomore electrical engineering major from Suriname), Logan Fogarty (senior renewable energy engineering major), and Jannatun Naiem (graduate student in electrical engineering from Bangladesh); faculty Xingwu Wang, professor of electrical engineering, Dan Lu, associate professor of renewable energy engineering, and Junpeng Zhan, assistant professor of renewable energy engineering; and John Simmins, director of the GE Vernova Advanced Power Grid Lab at Alfred University.
