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Berkshire Hathaway’s Rocky Mountain Power, a unit of PacifiCorp, will build a new 140-mile, 500-kV transmission line running from the new Aeolus substation to the new Anticline substation; a 16-mile, 230-kV transmission line from the company’s existing Shirley Basin substation to the new Aeolus substation; rebuild four miles of 230-kV transmission line between Aeolus and the existing Freezeout substation; to rebuild 14 miles of an existing 230-kV transmission line between the Freezeout substation and the Standpipe substation.
Rocky Mountain Power, which serves nearly 1.1 million customers in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, will file request for approval of the project on June 30 with the Utah Public Service Commission.
The company’s application will include a request for approval to procure or build new Wyoming wind resources with a total capacity of 860 MW.
© 2017 David Mazor
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