GridLiance West Core Seeks to Upgrade Transmission Line Project

August 8, 2023 - Nye and Clark Counties, NV - In addition to the proposed massive Greenlink West and North Transmission Projects, the Bureau of Land Management recieved an application to upgrade the existing 155-mile-long 230-kiloVolt GridLiance Transmission Line that wraps around the Spring Range and passes through Pahrump. The upgrades could make the new line 500 kV. The existingline is within the California Independent System Operator grid area, and upgrades would need study by the CAISO as well.

We beleive this upgrade is to be able to take more utility-scale solar projects in Pahrump Valley, Amargosa Valley, and around Indian Springs and elsewhere.

From the Sloan Mountain Substation, several substations would need enlargement and upgrades, including the Trout Canyon Substation, Innovation Substation, Gamebird Substation, Pahrump Substation, and Desert View Substation. A new Johnnie Corner Substation is proposed to be constructed. The line would end at the Northwest Substation.

The Proposed transmission project would take up 4,600 acres of land, with right of way as much as 275 feet wide if a double-circuit 500 kV line is chosen. Poles could be 200 feet tall. The 1998 Las Vegas Resource Management Plan would need to be amended to downgrade Visual Resource Classes in certain areas in order to accomodate this giant upgrade. For more see >>here.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-17060.pdf

https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2025248/510 

Written comments will be accepted until September 7, 2023 for scoping an Environmental Impact Statement and associated Resource Plan amendment by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Email: BLM_NV_SNDO_NEPA_Comments@blm.gov

Mail: BLM, Southern Nevada District Office, Attn: GridLinace West Core Upgrades Transmission Line Project, 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89130-2301.