Wednesday, December 14, 2011

ITC Decorates Transmission Towers with Festive Lighting as part of Holiday Tradition

NOVI, Mich., December 7, 2011 – ITC Holdings Corp., owner and operator of the high-voltage electricity grid in Michigan, has lit up nine of its 150-foot tall transmission towers in Michigan with colorful holiday decorations. The transmission towers are decorated with approximately one quarter mile of rope lights (16,000 bulbs). The decorations include 10- by 15-foot Happy Holidays signs and brightly lit stars at the tower tops. The festive lights will shine every evening until New Year’s Day.

“Our tower decorations have become a holiday tradition in Michigan,” said Gregory Ioanidis, president of ITC Michigan. “We’re happy to join the communities we serve all over the state to help celebrate this festive time of the year.”

The nine ITC transmission towers lighting up the sky during the holidays are in the following locations:

  • Brownstown Township (I-75 south of Van Horn Road)
  • Livonia (south of Plymouth Road and Hines Drive)
  • St. Clair (I-94 north of Fred W. Moore Hwy.)
  • Novi (I-96 at Meadowbrook)
  • Belleville (I-94 west of Haggerty)
  • Sterling Heights (Hall Road east of M-53)
  • Gaylord (I-75)
  • Grand Rapids (US 131 north of 28th Street SW)

Ferndale-based Eagle Sign Company designed the decorations for ITC, and Utility Lines Construction Services placed them on the towers.

About ITC Holdings Corp.

ITC Holdings Corp. (NYSE: ITC) is the nation’s largest independent electricity transmission company. Based in Novi, Mich., ITC invests in the electric transmission grid to improve system reliability, expand access to markets, lower the overall cost of delivered energy and allow new generating resources to interconnect to its transmission systems. ITC’s regulated operating subsidiaries include ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains. Through these subsidiaries, ITC owns and operates high-voltage transmission facilities in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, serving a combined peak load exceeding 25,000 megawatts along 15,000 circuit miles of transmission line. Through ITC Grid Development and its subsidiaries, the company also focuses on expansion in areas where significant transmission system improvements are needed. For more information, please visit: http://www.itc-holdings.com.

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