Report from the Sunrise Transmission Project Hearings (day 6)
UCAN News
A very revealing day in the hearing room. SDG&E's Engineering Manager, Ali Yari was on the hot seat defending costs of the Sunrise
Powerlink as well as SDG&E's controversial pricing of alternatives
to Sunrise proposed by UCAN and RPCC. Yari spent all day explaining how SDG&E determined that the UCAN and RPCC alternatives were exceedingly expensive. SDG&E had publicly declared that UCAN's alternative would impose $102 million in extra costs. Remarkably, even with those extra costs, UCAN's alternative is still more economical than Sunrise. But through piercing cross-examination, it turns out SDG&E's cost assessment had more holes than a pincushion. In fact, Mr. Yari couldn't support his cost estimates at all and couldn't explain the numerous inconsistencies that UCAN pointed out between SDG&E's average reconductoring costs ($5-10 million per project) and SDG&E's estimate for four reconductoring projects that the company assumed would cost over $25 million each, on average. By the end of the day it was clear that Yari's costs were more wishful thinking by SDG&E than sharp-eyed calculation.
-Michael
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