Supercharger - Lowell, MA

[Tdreamer]

Lineman trucks are promising!! But with the layoffs will the SCs ever get commissioned

Salem was commissioned today much, I think, to everyone's surprise. So the clear answer is yes. Lowell still needs work from the contractor to connect where they stopped their primary trench to wherever National Grid terminates their line work on a new pole. Lots of uncertainty still there, with existing supercharger site construction projects coming to a close and a bunch ready to start without any direction from Tesla on how to proceed.

That could free up a crew to quickly finish off Lowell perhaps. We'll see.

 

[Tdreamer]

Encouraging status update on this site. The utility seems to have done most of their work to install new poles and overhead primary lines to get power near where the transformer primary conduit was run. Not sure if any further utility work is needed (other than an obvious missing transformer. I think the next step is for the contractor to return to the site and complete their primary conduit to where the pole now exists - unless the utility still needs to get another pole closer to the current termination of the conduit on the other side of dumpster enclosure.

 

[meth0d21]

That's awesome - thank you for the update!

 

[RoBo H0B0]

No obvious changes in the last week and a half on the Lowell site. Still no transformer.