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SoCal Edison ordered to stop construction on renewable energy transmission line
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SoCal Edison ordered to stop construction on renewable energy transmission line
SoCal Edison ordered to stop construction on renewable energy transmission line
California utility regulators have frozen construction of a transmission line that would carry renewable energy through Chino Hills.
In a letter this week, the state Public Utilities Commission told Southern California Edison to put the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project on hold. Edison's supposed to consult with aviation officials about how to light transmission towers.
The commission also directed the investor-owned utility not to string transmission lines within a thousand feet of homes in Chino Hills. Opponents to the power line project in that city are claiming a partial victory. When it's completed, new transmission lines will deliver wind and renewable energy from Kern County to Southern California.
But some people in Chino Hills have said from the start that 19 new transmission towers for lines 200 feet in the air will harm property values. The city has spent millions of dollars fighting the project. Chino Hills argued against the power lines in a lawsuit, but a court ruled that the Public Utilities Commission had sole jurisdiction over the project's mechanics.
City leaders sent that legal claim on to the California Supreme Court. They say the state's top court might decide to take the case in January.
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