SoCal Renewable Energy Transmission Lines to Power 3 Million Homes

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http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2010/05/05/socal-renewable-energy-transmission-lines-to-power-3m-homes/

Southern California Edison (SCE) announced yesterday that the first phase of their Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP) was completed. When all phases are developed, TRTP will include a series of new and upgraded high-voltage transmission lines capable of integrating electricity from wind farms, solar and other generation resources to deliver 4,500 megawatts of power, enough for 3 million homes.

The completed segment of TRTP is capable of delivering 700 megawatts according to Theodore F. Craver Jr., chairman, president and chief executive of SCE’s parent corporation, Edison International.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Cal) headlined an assembly of local politicians and addressed a press gathering. The Governor touted California for having the “world’s most ambitious climate policies” claiming that its commitment to renewable energy is at the center of those policies.

“But there is one thing, of course, missing and that is transmission. And that’s what we are celebrating here today — transmission, transmission, transmission,” Schwarzenegger said. “I know that you can have all the renewable energy out there in the desert, all the windmills, all the solar, everything but if you can’t deliver that energy to the homes and to the factories and to the businesses and to the various different communities, you have nothing,” he added.

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[RandomThoughts]

1. So he is advocating less centralized energy production.

Like solar panels on houses, and windmills on gas stations to make fuel for electric cars?


Something I posted years ago.

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2. Part of me reads this and thinks it's good. Then part of me feels bad

for property owners who will have to live under or near these high-voltage lines. I once considered buying a house until I learned that it was going to possibly be in the path of a proposed new high-power transmission project. Someone in a rural area will always have to take the hit for the suburbs and cities.