Nearly 200-feet in the air, helicopters strategically lay new transmission lines, across already existing towers. The helicopters then drop off workers and their equipment to properly attach the power line. Once the work is done, the workers and their equipment are picked up, again by helicopter, and taken to the next tower.

"You might see an Ohio Edison lineman up in a bucket truck fixing a wire, if there is a storm or that kind of thing, this is much much taller and the guys that are doing this are highly specialized," said Mark Durbin, First Energy Spokesperson.

The job of laying the new transmission lines stretches nearly 115 miles, all the way from Beaver County, Pennsylvania, across the Valley and up towards Cleveland.

The towers along the route, already have a power line on one side. The project is reinforcing the power with a second line, on the other side.

"If there is a problem with a line that needs to be serviced, we can take the one out of service because we have that other one. Right now, we don't have that redundancy," said Durbin.

By using a helicopter, rather than heavy trucks and crews on the ground, the project is more time efficient and less invasive to crops and wetlands. "It takes a long time to do this, with helicopters its very efficient, very effective we can lay the wire, get people up there they can attach the wire and then we move on to the next one fairly quickly," added Durbin.

An efficient way to bring more power and power reliability to Northeastern Ohio.