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UniSource briefs Nogales council on Santa Cruz Reliability North transmission project
Summary
UniSource representatives described a three‑phase plan to build a second transmission feed into Santa Cruz County to provide redundancy, capacity and improved reliability; they outlined public siting, regulatory permits and a multi‑year timeline.
Representatives of UniSource Energy Services and Tucson Electric Power briefed the Nogales City Council on April 2 about the Santa Cruz Reliability North (SCR North) project, a three‑phase effort to add a second high‑voltage transmission connection into Santa Cruz County and reduce the risk of outages and service interruptions.
“Once this project is in service, it will provide full redundancy so that if there is something that occurs on now one of those two transmission lines, that power will immediately flow in the other direction, from a different source, and you will see no interruption in service,” Clark Bridal, UniSource’s manager for siting, outreach and engagement, told the council.
Bridal and Teresa Bravo (UniSource government relations) described the problem:…
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