SDG&E Power Line Receives Approval from U.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service has blessed San Diego Gas & Electric's proposed $1.9 billion, 120-mile Sunrise Powerlink transmission line, which the utility says will increase the reliability of the power grid and transport renewable energy such as solar, wind and geothermal power from remote areas in southern California's Imperial Valley to residences and businesses in the San Diego region. When completed in 2012, the 500kV Sunrise Powerlink electric superhighway" will have the capacity to carry at least 1,000mW of clean power, or enough energy for 650,000 homes. Details
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.