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Bonneville upgrades lines

Journal Article · · Engineering News-Record; (United States)
OSTI ID:5628943
A stretch of Bonneville Power Administration transmission line between Spokane and the Grand Coulee Dam is an 82-mile bottleneck as it is the last 115-kv section of [open quotes]road[close quotes] along a 500-kv transmission [open quotes]highway[close quotes]. Soon the administration will change all that. A number of independent and utility powerplants have been proposed in Idaho, Montana and the Spokane, Wash., area during the 1990s. As the operators will need to move their power, Bonneville is planning to build a $144-million, 500-kv line to upgrade the 115-kv section. The agency is planning to use its existing right-of-way.
OSTI ID:
5628943
Journal Information:
Engineering News-Record; (United States), Journal Name: Engineering News-Record; (United States) Vol. 231:9; ISSN 0013-807X; ISSN ENREAU
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English