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LCRA gets more time to plan lines
Published September 26, 2009
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted a LCRA Transmission Services Corporation motion Thursday afternoon to delay the filing dates of its four Competitive Renewable Energy Zones priority transmission projects.
This gives LCRA TSC more time to study additional possible transmission line routes it plans to build in West Texas and the Hill Country.
The filing dates now are extended to Oct. 28, 2009, for the Gillespie to Newton Project; Jan. 15, 2010, for the Twin Buttes to McCamey D Project; and July 6, 2010, for the McCamey D to Kendall and Kendall to Gillespie projects, which will be combined into a single filing called McCamey D to Kendall to Gillespie, according to a release.
A delay in the filing date sets the new in-service date for the McCamey D to Kendall to Gillespie transmission lines to the last quarter of 2013. The PUC will select the final routes in 2010 for the Gillespie to Newton and Twin Buttes to McCamey D projects and in 2011 for the combined McCamey D to Kendall to Gillespie projects.
“LCRA TSC requested the delay after reviewing considerable data, routing proposals and comments submitted by landowners, members of the public and governmental officials and concluded it needs more time to adequately study and prepare alternate routes. Originally, LCRA TSC was to file with the PUC a request for an amendment to its certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN) for all four priority projects in October 2009. The amended CCN is necessary for transmission line construction to begin,” according to the release.
The new routes and routing concepts to be studied include routes along and/or in the right of way of U.S. Highway 277 and Interstate 10; routes paralleling existing 138-kilovolt lines near Menard, Mason and Fredericksburg; and routes paralleling and in the same corridor as some proposed routes located north of the Kendall Station.
LCRA TSC plans to host several open houses in early 2010 “to inform the public of the new route options and gather input. Affected landowners and local elected officials will receive open house notices in the mail. Notices also will be published in local newspapers.”
For more information about these and other CREZ-related projects, including interactive maps of preliminary transmission line routes and exhibits that were available at the open houses in May, go to www.lcra.org/crez.
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