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OUR BENEFITS
Ten West Link is a proposed electrical transmission line that would transit reliable, economic, and environmentally-friendly electric energy between Southeast California and Southwest Arizona, bringing electric system benefits to the Desert Southwest – one of America’s fastest-growing regions.
Efficiency
system efficiency and economics
ENHANCE SYSTEM EFFICIENCY AND IMPROVE SYSTEM ECONOMICS
The Project would increase the capability of the system to deliver energy, thereby increasing the efficiency of the transmission network. By allowing a cost-effective transfer of energy in the southwestern United States, the increase in supply enhances competition among energy suppliers, which reduces energy costs to customers.
RESPOND TO THE NATIONAL POLICY PREFERENCE FOR RESOURCE UTILIZATION TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO DIVERSE RESOURCES
Ten West Link would expand regional access to low-cost, environmentally friendly energy generation sources, enabling load serving entities to use a more diverse, cost-effective set of energy resources to serve electrical demand.
Resources
enhance access to diverse resources
renewable energy
new transmission infrastructure
FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY
Ten West Link will create new transmission infrastructure needed to interconnect future renewable energy resources in both Arizona and California to the bulk transmission grid.
IMPROVE REGIONAL COLLABORATION
This interstate transmission line will facilitate efficient and increased sharing of generation resources between the two states thereby enhancing operational flexibility. This will enable both Arizona and California to effectively integrate renewable resources, share reliability services and increase supply diversity under normal and emergency conditions.
collaboration
Sharing of resources
transmission network
strengthen and improve reliability
ENHANCE OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY
By strengthening the bulk transmission network between Arizona and California, Ten West Link would create a diverse transmission network serving the two states. This would afford the transmission system operators in the two states the operational flexibility to redirect the power flows under normal and emergency conditions, to improve system reliability, and to defer transmission upgrades.
STRENGTHEN REGIONAL RELIABILITY
Ten West Link will strengthen the regional transmission system in Arizona and California by adding additional capacity and alleviating grid congestion. A larger, more robust transmission grid will improve energy reliability for the region’s consumers.
improve regional system
more reliability for consumers
creating opportuntiy
careers and secondary spending
PROMOTE REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Ten West Link will provide regional economic benefits by adding new jobs, indirect economic benefits such as secondary spending by those employed by the project, and property tax revenues.
CONSERVE RESOURCES
Ten West Link will use already developed transmission or utility corridors wherever possible, thereby minimizing visual, environmental, cultural, and other impacts, while maximizing the use of existing access roads and infrastructure.
protection
maximize access roads and infrastructure
Efficiency
system efficiency and economics
ENHANCE SYSTEM EFFICIENCY AND IMPROVE SYSTEM ECONOMICS
The Project would increase the capability of the system to deliver energy, thereby increasing the efficiency of the transmission network. By allowing a cost-effective transfer of energy in the southwestern United States, the increase in supply enhances competition among energy suppliers, which reduces energy costs to customers.
Resources
enhance access to diverse resources
RESPOND TO THE NATIONAL POLICY PREFERENCE FOR RESOURCE UTILIZATION TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO DIVERSE RESOURCES
Ten West Link would expand regional access to low-cost, environmentally friendly energy generation sources, enabling load serving entities to use a more diverse, cost-effective set of energy resources to serve electrical demand.
renewable energy
new transmission infrastructure
FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY
Ten West Link will create new transmission infrastructure needed to interconnect future renewable energy resources in both Arizona and California to the bulk transmission grid.
collaboration
Sharing of resources
IMPROVE REGIONAL COLLABORATION
This interstate transmission line will facilitate efficient and increased sharing of generation resources between the two states thereby enhancing operational flexibility. This will enable both Arizona and California to effectively integrate renewable resources, share reliability services and increase supply diversity under normal and emergency conditions.
transmission network
strengthen and improve reliability
ENHANCE OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY
By strengthening the bulk transmission network between Arizona and California, Ten West Link would create a diverse transmission network serving the two states. This would afford the transmission system operators in the two states the operational flexibility to redirect the power flows under normal and emergency conditions, to improve system reliability, and to defer transmission upgrades.
improve regional system
more reliability for consumers
STRENGTHEN REGIONAL RELIABILITY
Ten West Link will strengthen the regional transmission system in Arizona and California by adding additional capacity and alleviating grid congestion. A larger, more robust transmission grid will improve energy reliability for the region’s consumers.
creating opportuntiy
careers and secondary spending
PROMOTE REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Ten West Link will provide regional economic benefits by adding new jobs, indirect economic benefits such as secondary spending by those employed by the project, and property tax revenues.
protection
maximize access roads and infrastructure
CONSERVE RESOURCES
Ten West Link will use already developed transmission or utility corridors wherever possible, thereby minimizing visual, environmental, cultural, and other impacts, while maximizing the use of existing access roads and infrastructure.