The 500-kV, 520-mile SunZia transmission line is expected to deliver renewable energy from resources in New Mexico and Arizona to load centers farther west beginning in 2024.Â
The 500-kV, 520-mile SunZia transmission line is expected to deliver renewable energy from resources in New Mexico and Arizona to load centers farther west beginning in 2024.Â
A 520-mile high-voltage transmission line in New Mexico and Arizona that received federal right-of-way approval in 2016 is reopening its National Environmental Protection Act process with a plan to be operational by 2024.
The U.S. Department of the Interior in a January 2015 record of decision approved a route for the bidirectional, 500-kV SunZia Southwest Transmission Project to deliver high-quality wind generation resources from New Mexico through Arizona and into Southern California via the Palo Verde Hub. The Arizona Corporation Commission in 2016 approved a certificate of environmental compatibility for the 200Â miles of SunZia that would run through that state. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission in 2018 also approved rights of way for the project, but denied without prejudice its location in order to accommodate some private landowners, Tom Wray, project manager for SunZia, said in a telephone interview (see CEM No. 1509).
