The $271 million project would provide another connection between the transmission systems of Edison International's Southern California Edison and Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas and Electric.
The companies also said the line would help meet the growing demand for electricity in Southern California. According to estimates, San Diego will suffer from a 46-megawatt electricity shortfall for the next three years, growing to 199 MW in 2006 and higher in following years.
The project's sponsors said the line is needed to make their customers less vulnerable to outages and blackouts. If approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, the 31-mile transmission line would be completed in 2005.
A megawatt is enough electricity power about 1,000 homes. The line would thus carry enough juice to light more than 700,000 homes.
Details of the proposed Valley-Rainbow Interconnection Project were published in today's Federal Register. The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management will take comment through Feb. 1 and hold a public meeting on the project on Jan. 8 in Temecula.
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