If you are driving in and around Illinois Route 203 from World Wide Technology Raceway to Granite City near U.S. Steel facilities in Madison County over the next several months, you will see energy upgrades underway. Ameren Illinois is replacing 1960s era pipeline along a six-mile stretch with new steel pipeline, while adding three new regulator stations and two new control valve stations.
Brad Kloeppel, Senior Director of Gas Technical Services for the utility tells The Big Z the upgrades are necessary to comply with enhanced federal transmission pipeline regulations established in 2019…