|
contents | news | |||||||||
| New electric transmission line  A coalition of California business and labor groups, called the Associated Business & Labor for Energy, announced its unified support for the Sunrise Powerlink, a major electric-transmission line proposed by San Diego Gas & Electric. The line will help deliver renewable power to the San Diego region by connecting to new facilities to be built in the Imperial Valley, including a new solar-thermal site planned by Stirling Energy Systems and existing geothermal fields near the Salton Sea. The Stirling facility, which will be able to deliver up to 900 megawatts of solar power, is the largest such site in the United States.The Sunrise Powerlink is a proposed 120-mile transmission line that will run between the Imperial Valley and San Diego and be capable of delivering enough power for more than 650,000 customers. The line would benefit all California energy consumers because the state's power grid is interconnected. A major infrastructure upgrade in one section of the grid, such as the Sunrise Powerlink, improves reliability throughout the state. The Sunrise Powerlink would also help SDG&E meet the state regulators' goal of having 20% of its energy come from renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal by the year 2010. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |