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Santa Fe County, N.M., approves line upgrade by utility PNM.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2004

By John Arnold, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 15--SANTA FE, N.M. -- The Santa Fe County Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a Public Service Company of New Mexico proposal to upgrade transmission lines.

Under PNM's plan -- dubbed Project Power -- new lines will follow a 13-mile path of existing power lines that run across city, county and federal land.

The new lines are needed to help Santa Fe meet a growing demand for power, PNM representative Laurie Moye told commissioners. Power consumption in Santa Fe has doubled over the past two decades, and if one of the two 1950s-era lines that currently serves the city were to fail or need repair, the other line couldn't meet demand, according to...

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