Siting and public process

Phase I

This siting process for both the PV-PW and PW-SEV/BRG (formerly PW-SEV/BOB) projects was initiated with a series of open houses focused on introducing the Project's need and benefits.

The input received during Phase I was incorporated into Phase II of the planning process, the identification of opportunities and sensitive and avoidance areas. This input was then incorporated into Phase III, which addressed the Geographical Informational System (GIS), routing and alternatives.

A timeline of Phase I is presented below:

View summaries of the July 2002 public open house meetings.

Phase II

The purpose of the Phase II open house series was to identify concerns and solicit comments on the opportunities, sensitive and avoidance areas, which is the basis of the transmission line siting criteria within the project study area.

The open houses were a venue to obtain comments on what the community felt were the best opportunities for siting a transmission line and what areas were the most sensitive, or worst, places to site a transmission line.

A timeline of Phase II is presented below:

View summaries (180K PDF*) of the October 2002 public open house meetings.

Phase III

The Phase III open house series presented the prioritized opportunties and sensitive areas within the study area with a prioritized, or color variation, map of the areas.

The project team used the prioritized opportunities and sensitive areas to further refine and analyze the siting criteria and the results presented the routing alternatives. The primary purpose of this open house series was to present and obtain comments on the potential routing alternatives that met this siting criteria.

A timeline of Phase III is presented below:

View summaries (39K PDF*) of the December 2002 public open house meetings.

Approximately 300 people have attended a total of 15 open houses that have been held to date in order to obtain input on the projects. All of the comments received at the open houses, as well as others we continue to receive, are being incorporated into the projects' database for use by the Projects' siting team to help identify the potential routes and alternatives.

The results of this siting and public process were presented to the Arizona Corporation Commission Generation and Transmission Line Siting Committee.

PV-PW project timeline

Pending	Date
Engineering design and right-of-way acquisition	begins Summer 2004
Construction	2005 - mid 2006
Completed	Date
CEC filing	Dec. 16, 2003
CEC hearing	Feb. 9-10, 2004
Tour of alternatives	Feb. 23, 2004 - The siting committee toured the route alternatives.
CEC hearing	March 15-16, 2004
ACC Line Siting Committee recommendation	March 16, 2004
ACC approved CEC	May 18, 2004

PW-SEV/BRG project timeline

Please check back for specific dates.

Pending	Date
Construction begins	Late 2006
Construction completed	2011
Completed	Date
Open house meetings	July 26-29, 2004 Sept. 9, 2004
CEC filed	Oct. 7, 2004
Route tours	An Area A route tour was conducted on Jan. 20, 2005 (view a tour map - 211K PDF). A tour of Area B was conducted March 2 (view a tour map - 1MB PDF). A tour of Area C, option 1 was conducted March 29 (view a (tour map - 8.7 MB PDF)
CEC hearings	Nov. 29-30 (overview) and Dec. 16-17, 2004 (Area A); Jan. 7 (Area A); Jan. 10-11, 2005 (Area B); Feb. 14-15, March 9-10, 22-23 and April 8, 14-15 (Area C); and May 10 Docket number: L-00000B-04-0126 Case number: 126
State siting committee recommends CEC	May 10, 2005
Hearing re-opening for additional evidence	June 7, 2005 - View SRP's request to reopen deliberations (116K PDF*) for the limited purpose of clarifying corridor widths along the CAP canal; View map of the approved alignment corridor width (exhibit A-36, 62K PDF*)
Hearing in response to request for review of the Line Siting committee's recommendation	July 13, 2005
Public comment session	July 20, 2005
Special open meeting for ACC to vote on the line route	Aug. 15-16, 2005
ACC votes to grant CEC	Aug. 16, 2005 (view details)

Contact us

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E-mail: Send questions to webmaster@azpower.org.

Telephone: (866) PVS-EV99 (866-787-3899)

Information request form: For questions about the project, complete our online request for information form.

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