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A concerned crowd filled the Medina County commissioners court chamber Monday to hear a presentation from CPS Energy on plans for a record-sized 765 kilovolt transmission line stretching 370 miles from San Antonio to Fort Stockton. The exact route of the line is yet to be determined. (Photo by Anton Riecher)
By Anton Riecher
Willing or not, Medina County may be selected as the future host of a record setting new power transmission line stretching from near San Antonio to West Texas, a representative of CPS Energy told a public hearing in Hondo Monday.
Kirk Rasmussen, an attorney for Jackson Walker LLC, said the Texas Public Utility Commission has assigned the construction of three new 765 kilovolt power lines to CPS and AEP Texas to be in service by 2030. Prior to this, the largest transmission lines in Texas operate in the 500 kV range.
Of the three new lines, the 370-mile Howard Road-Solstice transmission project may come through Medina County, Rasmussen said.
“In an application of this length we will probably have hundreds of different route combinations where we will measure the data and present that to the commission,” he said.
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