Reaching California, Oregon, and Washington may depend on access to unused capacity
on existing transmission lines, or on being part of a multi-resource portfolio carried across new lines.
It employs reclaimed water for its cooling and was built
near existing transmission lines on what used to be farmland rather than the pristine desert areas nearby that have provoked opposition to some other planned solar power plants.
However, the provinces say
the existing transmission lines can support their new power agreement.
Minnesota Power wants to add
the existing transmission line with North Dakota wind power to its transmission system in order to meet Minnesota's renewable portfolio standard.
Projects in eastern Canadian provinces could potentially win contracts under the regional RFP, and the electricity would be channeled via new or
existing transmission lines.
People are just waking up to the fact of the hidden costs, monetary and visual as new transmission lines are required beause these new rural power stations are nowhere near where
the existing transmission lines are.
Existing transmission lines, available water and roads capable of supporting wide, heavy loads provide ready - made infrastructure.
In South Australia, for example, southern Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas, Kangaroo Island and the Limestone Coast (south - eastern SA) would have more wind farm development if
the existing transmission lines had more capacity.
Until such time that there is an extensive up grade to
the existing transmission lines, which would cost the state government millions of dollars, the development will not occur.
Thanks to
the existing transmission lines, the clean power generated by the solar farm could be sent to both the Arizonian and Californian markets.
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Existing transmission lines, available water and roads capable of supporting wide, heavy loads provide ready - made infrastructure,» he wrote.