Adelanto Converter Station in Adelanto, California, is the southern terminus of the 2,400 MW Path 27 Utah–California high voltage DC power (HVDC) transmission line. The station contains redundant thyristor-based HVDC converters rated for 1,200 MW continuous or 1,600 MW short term overload.[1] The 300-acre (120 ha) station was completed in July, 1986 at a cost of US$131 million.[2] The northern terminus of Path 27 is fossil fueled Intermountain Power Plant in Utah.

An adjacent $45 million AC switching station owned by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power links to the Southern California grid via five 500-kV AC lines.[2]

ABB, who had built the station in 1986, upgraded its original 1,600 MW capacity to 2,400 MW in 2011.[1]

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.[3]

Interconnects

Adelanto substation is connected to the following via 500 kV AC lines:[2]

  • Marketplace substation in Nevada via Path 64
  • Victorville Switching Station (two lines)
  • RS-E (Toluca) in the eastern San Fernando Valley
  • RS-Rinaldi in the northern San Fernando Valley

References

  1. 1 2 The second HVDC transmission to Los Angeles, ABB, retrieved 2015-08-15
  2. 1 2 3 Adelanto Converter Station, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, c. 2011, archived from the original on 2014-02-05
  3. ↑ Adelanto solar power project, LADWP, 2012

Further reading

34°33′4″N 117°26′14″W / 34.55111°N 117.43722°W / 34.55111; -117.43722

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