Application Of Pacific Gas And Electric Company U 39 E For A Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity Authorizing The Construction Of The Egbert Switching Station Project

PG&E's Egbert Switching Station Project proposes to improve reliability of electric service to its customers in San Francisco. The applicant's objectives for the proposed project are: --To improve reliability of PG&E's transmission system serving San Francisco by constructing a new 230 kV switching station in the vicinity of Martin Substation that provides a high likelihood of continued electric service to San Francisco should an extreme event render Martin Substation inoperable. --To construct a safe and economically and technically feasible project that minimizes environmental impacts and that will deliver 230 kV power received from the south to San Francisco. -- To provide a 230 kV connection between a new switching station and Martin Substation to enable the transmission system serving San Francisco to operate in the event that a 230 kV transmission line serving either Martin Substation or the proposed switching station experiences an unplanned outage.