An open house for the public to learn about a proposed 138-kilovolt (kV) transmission line and station in Guadalupe County is planned for Monday, Dec. 6, in the Seguin-Guadalupe County Coliseum in Seguin.

 

LCRA Transmission Services Corporation (LCRA TSC) will host the “come-and-go” style open house as an opportunity to inform citizens about the Cushman to Highway 123 project and to gather public input concerning line routing.

 

The public is invited to the open house from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to ask questions of staff, view aerial photography maps to locate their property, and peruse at their leisure a number of exhibits that explain the project, the line siting process, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) approval process and other related topics.

 

The new transmission line will be built on single-circuit structures and connect the existing Cushman Station in Seguin to the proposed LCRA TSC Highway 123 Station. The new station will be tapped into the existing Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative’s Hickory Forest to New Berlin 138-kV transmission line in the vicinity of Highway 123 south of Seguin.

 

The entire project will be approximately six to nine miles long, depending on the route chosen by the PUC. The transmission line is scheduled to become operational by June 2014.

 

This project will help ensure reliable electric service to existing and anticipated City of Seguin electric load served out of the Cushman Station. The new transmission line will provide an alternative transmission source to the Cushman Station and serve as a source to meet anticipated load growth south of Seguin.

 

For more information, contact Christian Powell, LCRA senior regulatory case manager, at

1-800-776-5272, Ext. 4586, or P.O. Box 220, Mailstop BTC 101, Austin, Texas 78767.

Also, see http://www.lcra.org/energy/index.html.

 

LCRA Transmission Services Corporation was formed in 2000 to separate LCRA’s generation and transmission operations according to the rules established in Senate Bill 7 in 1999. The wholly owned nonprofit corporation today owns, operates and maintains more than 4,000 miles of transmission lines, 300 substations and a state-of-the-art system operations control center.

 

LCRA is a nonprofit conservation and reclamation district that provides energy, water and community services to Texans. Created by the Texas Legislature in 1934, LCRA has no taxing authority and operates solely on utility revenues and service fees. LCRA supplies electricity to more than 1.1 million Texans through more than 40 wholesale customers. LCRA also provides many other services to the region. These services include managing floods, protecting the quality of the lower Colorado River and its tributaries, providing parks and recreational facilities, offering economic development assistance, operating water and wastewater utilities, and providing soil, energy and water conservation programs.