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ground and will preserve the
historical railroad building
called the Machine Shop.
“This new station will provide
a reliable supply of electric-
ity at the distribution level
for downtown Toronto,” says
Tom Odell, Project Manager
at Toronto Hydro. “Specifi-
cally, the station will serve
those very critical loads that
are in the Financial District,
Entertainment District, CBC
headquarters and the massive
amount of development that’s
taking place along the Lake-
shore and Queen’s Quay.”
This is just the second under-
ground transformer station
in Canada - the first being
in Vancouver. Once it’s com-
plete, the station will be ap-
proximately 50,000 square
feet, with three floors span-
ning 40 feet below grade.
Toronto Hydro is also using
more modern equipment such
as gas-insulated transformers.
