The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) – Rocky Mountain Power has launched construction of its new high-voltage transmission line that will run from Downey in southeastern Idaho to an existing substation west of Salt Lake City International Airport.

The 135-mile-long project known as the “Populus to Terminal” transmission line will cost approximately $600 million and is scheduled to be completed in 2010.

It is part of a massive $6 billion project of approximately 2,000 miles of new transmission lines that PacifiCorp, the Oregon-based utility that does business as Rocky Mountain Power and Pacific Power, hopes to complete in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and possibly Colorado by 2014. [read more…]