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An estimated 240 South Texas landowners and other interested parties packed the Uvalde County Event Center on August 5 to hear details of a project to build what’s planned to be Texas’ highest voltage transmission line to date. The “Howard-Solstice Project,” a 760 kilovolt line between Fort Stockton and San Antonio, is sponsored jointly by CPS Energy of San Antonio and AEP Texas, a unit of Ohio-based American Energy Company. The 370-mile transmission ine, which passes through 14 Texas counties, is named for the eastern and western anchor substations of the 370-mile powerline project. Its east terminal is the yet-to-be-built...

ROSEMEAD – Southern California Edison Co. has applied to build a 230-mile, high-voltage transmission line between Phoenix and Palm Springs. The Rosemead-based utility, a unit of Edison International, Tuesday said the Devers-Palo Verde 2 Project will provide California customers with 1,200 megawatts of electricity generated in Arizona. The company expects the project to cost $680 million and be in operation by summer 2009.

<p>While Enron is dead, the grip of its cold, dead hand on the nation's economy is not. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is busily implementing a new scheme of increased regulatory intervention that was long sought by the now defunct company because it would benefit the company's business operations.</p>