Adelanto Converter Station in
Adelanto, California
Adelanto (Spanish for "Advance") is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is approximately northwest of Victorville in the Victor Valley area of the Mojave Desert, in the northern region of the Inland Empire.Linthicum ...
, is the southern terminus of the 2,400 MW
Path 27
Path 27, also called the Intermountain or the Southern Transmission System (STS), is a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electrical transmission line running from the Coal-fired power station, coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant near Delta, Uta ...
Utah–California high voltage DC power (HVDC) transmission line. The station contains redundant
thyristor
A thyristor (, from a combination of Greek language ''θύρα'', meaning "door" or "valve", and ''transistor'' ) is a solid-state semiconductor device which can be thought of as being a highly robust and switchable diode, allowing the passage ...
-based
HVDC converter
An HVDC converter converts electric power from high voltage alternating current (AC) to high-voltage direct current (HVDC), or vice versa. HVDC is used as an alternative to AC for transmitting electrical energy over long distances or between AC pow ...
s rated for 1,200 MW continuous or 1,600 MW short term overload.
[ The station was completed in July, 1986 at a cost of US$131 million.][ The northern terminus of Path 27 is fossil fueled ]Intermountain Power Plant
Intermountain Power Plant is a large coal-fired power plant at Delta, Utah, US. It has an installed capacity of 1,900 MW, is owned by the Intermountain Power Agency, and is operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
The p ...
in Utah.
An adjacent $45 million AC switching station owned by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal Public utility, utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of wat ...
links to the Southern California grid via five 500-kV AC lines.[
ABB, who had built the station in 1986, upgraded its original 1,600 MW capacity to 2,400 MW in 2011.][
In 2012, an 11.4 MW solar array (less than 1% of the Utah plant's capacity) was installed at the facility at a cost of $48 million obtained with loans subsidized by the ]American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a Stimulus (economics), stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Developed ...
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Interconnects
Adelanto substation is connected to the following via 500 kV AC lines:[
* Marketplace substation in Nevada via ]Path 64
Path 46, also called West of Colorado River, Arizona-California West-of-the-River Path (WOR), is a set of fourteen high voltage (500 kV & 230 kV) alternating-current transmission lines that are located in southeast California and Nevada up to the ...
*Victorville Switching Station (two lines)
*RS-E (Toluca) in the eastern San Fernando Valley
*RS-Rinaldi in the northern San Fernando Valley
References
Further reading
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External links
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LADWP electrical system map
showing AC and DC paths
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Converter stations
Energy infrastructure in California
Western Interconnection
Energy infrastructure completed in 1986
1986 establishments in California