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Electric infrastructure: Balancing competing interests

Electric infrastructure: Balancing competing interests. May 2013. Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project ( TRTP ). Delivering more renewable power. SCE is expanding and upgrading its transmission and distribution networks to: M eet the region’s growing demand for electricity

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Electric infrastructure: Balancing competing interests

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  1. Electric infrastructure:Balancing competing interests May 2013 Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP)

  2. Delivering more renewable power • SCE is expanding and upgrading its transmission and distribution networks to: • Meet the region’s growing demand for electricity • Improve grid performance • Meet California’s ambitious renewable power goals • Renewable resources such as wind and solar are located far from the populated areas where customers can put that power to use • Building new or upgrading existing high-voltage transmission lines makes it possible to transport power from its generation source over long distances to where most Californians live and work

  3. The playing fieldBuilding infrastructure means bALANCING COMPETING INTERESTS… VARIOUS INTERESTS AFFORDABLE ENERGY SAFETY, RELIABILITY PUBLIC POLICY, RENEWABLES

  4. Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project (TRTP) The nation’s largest transmission project devoted primarily to renewable energy Total project length: 250 circuit miles of infrastructure (spanning 173 miles) across 20 communities in 3 counties; nearly all in existing utility right-of-way corridorOverall project cost: $2.1 billionNew capacity: Enough renewable energy capacity to power approximately 3 million homes (4,500 megawatts)CPUC approved theoverheadproject in 2009 with completion targeted for late 2015TRTP Segments 1-3 (shown as green lines) were approved in March 2007 and are complete

  5. CURRENT STATE TRTP: $2.1 billion project spanning 20 communities to import up to 4,500 MW of renewable power to the Southern California basin CONSTRUCTION ON OTHER TRTP SEGMENTS CONTINUES

  6. Overhead is the best option • Most effective route for transmitting 500 kilovolts to import up to 4,500 MW of renewable power over distance • Least environmental impact • Most cost-effective: extra $400m-$700m to underground • 3 miles is less than 2% of overall project • $400m - $700m is approximately 25% - 33% of total project budget • Construction method • Overhead proven reliable over time • Underground of 500 kilovolt transmission is first in US

  7. Overhead/Underground COMPARISON

  8. Organizations OPPOSING impacts of UNDERGROUND OPTION • Assemblymember Steve Bradford • State Senator Alex Padilla • Board of Equalization Vice Chair Michelle Steel • County of Kern • Ventura County Econ. Dev. Agency • City of Whittier • City of Pico Rivera • American Assoc. of Blacks in Energy • CA Manufacturers & Technology Assoc. • Congress of CA Seniors • CA Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce • Numerous other chambers of commerce throughout CA Partial list, to date, of individuals and organizations urging the CPUC to oppose the underground consideration: In Orange County… • Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce • Fullerton Chamber of Commerce • Cypress Chamber of Commerce • Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce • Orange Chamber of Commerce • Placentia Chamber of Commerce • Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce • Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

  9. Statewide issue • Potential cost impacts • Precedence for an undergrounding project like this • Bad public policy of a state agency reversing an earlier decision

  10. Questions?

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