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Committee continues controversial Transbay Cable project for further review
Summary
After lengthy presentations from Port, SFPUC and the ISO, and extensive public testimony for and against, the Budget & Finance Committee continued the Transbay Cable items to the call of the chair (within 45 days) to allow additional SFPUC, ISO and port analysis on reliability, environmental mitigation and public-benefit terms.
The committee continued action on the Transbay Cable project—an approximately 400-megawatt high-voltage direct-current transmission line proposed by Transbay Cable LLC—after extensive testimony from port staff, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the California Independent System Operator (ISO).
Port and project staff summarized the CEQA review, mitigation measures, appraisal-based license payments and a public-benefit package that would deliver payments to the Port and to the SFPUC to support renewable-energy and…
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