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Committee endorses PG&E port term sheet in principle, forwards license and Hoe Downyard option to full Board
Summary
Port staff and PG&E presented a nonbinding term sheet for a three-mile submerged/underground 230 kV cable to add redundancy for downtown power; the committee endorsed the term sheet in principle, accepted amendments and forwarded it to the full Board without recommendation while flagging uncertainty over funding for a proposed enclosure of an open-air switchyard and an option to acquire the three-acre Hoe Downyard parcel.
The committee discussed and then forwarded to the full Board a nonbinding term sheet negotiated by the Port and PG&E to construct a submerged and underground 230 kV transmission connection between the Embarcadero and Potrero substations.
Brad Benson, Special Projects Director at the Port, said the project is intended to provide redundancy for downtown San Francisco—s electric supply; PG&E had initially studied three routing options and proposed a submerged route under port property to minimize disruptive construction in neighborhoods. Ontario Smith of PG&E explained the extra route would create an additional circuit so the Embarcadero Substation would not be in…
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