Warren Rural Electric Cooperative is completing a new $9 million electrical substation on a five-acre tract in Franklin’s Wilkey North Industrial Park. The substation is being built to improve electric service to residential and industrial customers in northern Simpson County and to serve the new Fritz Winter plant in the industrial park.

The substation, a Tennessee Valley Authority delivery point, is designed to eventually serve industrial customers Franklin Precision Industry and Harman Becker International.

WRECC serves approximately 65,000 members in southcentral Kentucky and owns and operates 39 substations across the region.