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Welcome to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) website
for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review of the
proposed construction of the Nevada Hydro Company Inc.'s (TNHC)
Talega-Escondido/Valley-Serrano (TE/VS) 500 kV Interconnect Project.
An application for this project was submitted to the CPUC on October
9, 2007 (A.07-10-005).
This site provides access to public documents and information relevant
to the CEQA review process.
Background
TNHC has filed an application for a Certificate of Public Convenience
and Necessity (CPCN) with the CPUC to construct the TE/VS 5 kV
Interconnect Project. The CPUC is the CEQA lead agency for the TE/VS
transmission line project .
The TE/VS project is necessary in order to:
- Provide a transmission interconnection from the proposed Lake
Elsinore Advanced Pumped Storage (LEAPS) hydroelectric facility
to the transmission systems of Southern California Edison (SCE)
and Southern Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E);
- Interconnect the SCE and SDG&E transmission systems and
facilitate wholesale bulk power transfers between those systems
and from neighboring areas and those systems.
The TE/VS 500 kV Transmission Line, as proposed by TNHC will be
a 500 kV alternating current regional interconnection transmission
line with a nominal design capacity of 1,000 MW. The transmission
line will be approximately 30 miles in length and will extend from
the proposed LEAPS facility in Lake Elsinore, southward to SDG&E's
existing 230 kV Talega-Escondido transmission line in San Diego
County, and northward to SCE's existing 500 kV Valley Serrano transmission
line in Riverside County. The interconnection with SDG&E will
be between SDG&E's existing Talega and Escondido substations
at a new substation in the vicinity of Camp Pendleton. The interconnection
with SCE's network will be at a point between SCE's Valley and Serrano
Substations, at a new substation in the vicinity of Lee Lake. In
addition to the improvements described above, TNHC's TE/VS Interconnect
Project will require numerous upgrades to the networks of SDG&E
and SCE.
Application and Proponent's Environmental
Assessment (PEA)
The application and the
Draft PEA for the TE/VS project were filed with the CPUC on October 9,
2007. The documents may be viewed here. The CPUC sent a comment
letter on the Draft PEA on November 16, 2007. The applicant
revised the PEA and filed a Final PEA
to the CPUC on February 8, 2008. The CPUC formally reviewed
the PEA for completeness, and sent a deficiency
letter on March 6, 2008.
For Additional Information
To request additional information regarding this project, please
contact the following:
Billie Blanchard - CPUC Project Manager
California Public Utilities Commission
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel. (415) 703-2068
Fax. (415) 703-2200
Email: bcb@cpuc.ca.gov |
