SRP Submits Application for Power Line Permit

Utilities Seeking Approval for East Valley Transmission Project

PHOENIX – Salt River Project has submitted an application for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) for the Abel-Moody Transmission Line Project.

 The Abel-Moody Project consists of a new 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line connecting two planned SRP substations as well as a proposed 25-acre substation in the Queen Creek area.

Planned to be in service by the summer of 2012, the Abel-Moody Project would improve SRP’s ability to keep pace with current and future electrical demands in southeast Maricopa County and northern Pinal County.  The project would also provide greater reliability for SRP customers by adding the infrastructure necessary to bring additional supplies of energy to the region.

The project includes a new 230kV power line that will initially connect the Abel Substation, located near the intersection of Judd and Attaway roads southeast of Queen Creek, with the Schrader-to-Santan 230kV transmission line near the Moody Substation, located near Recker and Pecos roads in Gilbert.  As part of the project, a new substation will be built near the intersection of Combs and Meridian roads in Queen Creek.

The proposed routes for the transmission line were selected after an extensive public process that included a series of open houses in Queen Creek and locations in northern Pinal County.  Notices and newsletters with information about the project and the public open houses also were sent to more than 64,000 addresses within the project study area.  The routes selected at the conclusion of this process are included in the permit application with the ACC.

The ACC’s Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee will review the application at a public hearing commencing on August 5 at 9:30 a.m. at the ASU Polytechnic Campus, Student Union Cooley Ballrooms, located at 7001 E. Williams Field Road in Mesa.  There will also be a special public comment session that evening at 6 p.m. at the same location.  Following the hearings, the siting committee will decide whether to issue or deny the certificate, which requires final approval at an open meeting of the ACC.

If a CEC is granted, SRP expects to begin construction in 2011 with completion of the first circuit planned for 2012.

Submitted on behalf of Salt River Project
SRP is the largest provider of electricity in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, serving about 935,000 customers in Maricopa and Pinal counties.

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