Power plan fizzles outBurbank won’t be getting energy from underground project after Los Angeles shelves its plans.
Burbank Leader: April 14, 2010 by Zain Shauk
Burbank and Glendale utilities are looking for new renewable-energy sources after a decision last month by a Los Angeles utility to cancel plans for shared transmission lines for a geothermal project.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power abandoned its plans for a Green Path transmission line to the Salton Sea. The line could have carried up to 500,000 volts of power from an area that utility officials say has great potential for geothermal power generation.
Power generated from heat, captured underground near the edges of tectonic plates, is also considered more reliable than solar rays or wind, utility managers said.
Opposition from environmental groups and community organizations along the proposed transmission line, which would have run through multiple wildlife preserves and the San Bernardino National Forest, ultimately derailed the plans, local utility managers said.
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Burbank Water and Power had anticipated receiving about 5.5% of its peak load of electricity from geothermal projects through the Green Path line.
Glendale Water & Power had expected a similar amount.
Both utilities have committed to getting roughly a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020. Burbank is at about 10%, Glendale at 23%. READ MORE !
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