• Ameren placed its Knox County Connector transmission project into service in June, upgrading the power grid in Knox County, Illinois.
• The project built about 11 miles of new and upgraded high-voltage transmission lines linking the Sandburg substation near Galesburg to facilities near Oneida.
• The line replaced some infrastructure more than 100 years old, aiming to improve reliability and resilience for regional customers.
• Most work rebuilt existing corridors, co-locating with existing Ameren Illinois facilities to strengthen the regional transmission system.

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