
Chapter 5
Development: Transmission
Arturo Alvarez, Jesse Tippett and Albie Fong
Developments for commercial projects such as shopping malls or housing develop-
ments evaluate the proximity and quality of key resources such as demographics and
the local transportation support infrastructure. In energy projects, the second most
vital characteristic after the evaluation of the energy resource (solar radiation in the
case of solar energy) is the critical support infrastructure of the power transmission
and distribution lines available to the project. Without reasonable access to transmis-
sion infrastructure, power projects cannot effectively deliver ...