Los Angeles, November 23, 2009 — The California Public Utilities Commission approved Southern California Edison’s $537 million, 150-mile project, called the Devers Palo Verde 2 line.
SCE, a unit of Edison International, changed its original 270-mile Devers Palo Verde proposal earlier this year after Arizona utility regulators rejected construction of the line in that state.
Slated for completion in 2013, the project will move an extra 1.2 GW of power from Riverside County to energy customers in Southern California.
The 128-mile, 500-KV line will connect SCE's Devers substation near Palm Springs to a proposed Midpoint switchyard near Blythe, California. SCE also will build a 42-mile, 500-KV line between the Devers substation and its Valley substation in Riverside County.
The SCE transmission line is also subject to approval of the California ISO.
