Another Option For Sunrise Powerlink

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published November 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM PST

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

The California Public Utilities Commission has released an Alternate Proposed Decision by President Michael Peevey that approves San Diego Gas and Electric Company's construction of the 150-mile Sunri

The California Public Utilities Commission has released an Alternate Proposed Decision by President Michael Peevey that approves San Diego Gas and Electric Company's construction of the 150-mile Sunrise Powerlink Transmission Project in order to meet renewable power goals.

Peevey's Alternate Proposed Decision approves the Final Environmentally Superior Southern Route for the line in order to deliver renewable generation that would otherwise remain unavailable.

Peevey says his proposed decision clears the way for a new renewable energy superhighway, allowing SDG&E to tap into the Imperial Valley's renewable resources without delay or unnecessary barriers.

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The decision follows Governor Schwarzenegger's Executive Order issued yesterday that calls on increasing the state's renewable energy goal to 33 percent by 2020.

Peevey's Alternate Proposed Decision will be considered by the CPUC's five Commissioners along with two other proposals: an Administrative Law Judge Proposed Decision that denies the Sunrise application and an Alternate Proposed Decision sponsored by a CPUC Commissioner that approves, with conditions, the Southern Route for Sunrise.

The CPUC's first opportunity to vote on the three proposals is December 18, 2008.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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