PSC officials detail upcoming alternative energy line
AURORA | Conduits conveying energy captured from the wind and sun of northeast Colorado to metro area homes are slated to wind their way through the city by 2013.
Representatives from the Public Service Company of Colorado updated the city’s Planning, Economic Development and Redevelopment Policy Committee Aug. 28 on plans for the Pawnee/Smoky Hill Transmission Line, a channel that would enter Aurora from the east just south of Quincy Avenue and end at the Smoky Hill power substation near south Gun Club Road. Portions of the transmission lines would also run through the Tollgate Crossing neighborhood in Aurora.
The proposed 345-kilovolt line would replace the current 230-kilovolt line and would originate in rural northeast Colorado, drawing on wind and solar energy sources. According to Public Service Company of Colorado representatives, the upgrade in voltage would necessitate upgrades to the current station off Gun Club Road.
The upgrades come as part of a state requirement for electric companies to supply at least 20 percent of their power supply through renewable sources by 2020, a regulation spelled out in Amendment 37, House Bill 1281 and Senate Bill 100.
By Adam Goldstein
28 August 2008
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